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You feel it just below the ribs : a novel
- Title
- You feel it just below the ribs : a novel / Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson.
- Author
- Cranor, Jeffrey, 1975-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 22-2699 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Matthewson, Janina
- Description
- 371 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- A fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one woman's unusual life. To ensure a lasting peace, The New Society forbids anything that may cause tribal loyalties, including traditional families. Born at the end of the old world, Miriam does not know it is the beginning of a darkly sinister program that will transform this new world and the lives of everyone in it. Eventually, the harmful effects of her research become too much for Miriam, and she devises a secret plan to destroy the system from within, endangering her own life. Print run 20,000.
- "A haunting, provocative novel, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one woman's unusual life, including the price she pays to survive and the cost her choices hold for the society she is trying to save. Born at the end of the old world, Miriam grows up during The Great Reckoning, a sprawling, decades-long war that nearly decimates humanity and strips her of friends and family. Devastated by grief and loneliness, she emotionally exiles herself, avoiding relationships or allegiances, and throws herself into her work -- disengagement that serves her when the war finally ends, and The New Society arises. To ensure a lasting peace, The New Society forbids anything that may cause tribal loyalties, including traditional families. Suddenly, everyone must live as Miriam has chosen to -- disconnected and unattached. A researcher at heart, Miriam becomes involved in implementing this detachment process. She does not know it is the beginning of a darkly sinister program that will transform this new world and the lives of everyone in it. Eventually, the harmful effects of her research become too much for Miriam, and she devises a secret plan to destroy the system from within, endangering her own life. But is her "confession" honest -- or is it a fabrication riddled with lies meant to conceal the truth? A jarring and uncanny tale of loss, trauma, and the power of human connection and deception, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a portrait of a disturbing alternate world eerily within reach, and an examination of the difficult choices we must make to survive in it." --
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Fictional autobiographies.
- Dystopian fiction.
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-2699
- ISBN
- 0063143070
- 9780063143074
- OCLC
- 1237861601
- Author
- Cranor, Jeffrey, 1975- author.
- Title
- You feel it just below the ribs : a novel / Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Matthewson, Janina, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-2699