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The 1,000-square-mile Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is, for many, a
symbol of total disaster: a reminder of shattered ideals and lost
lives, now a toxic, dangerous no-man's-land. For Markiyan Kamysh,
it became a site of pilgrimage. He and dozens like him call
themselves 'stalkers': wild adventurers who sneak past border
patrols to spend days getting lost in this apocalyptic environment
of dense swampland and desolate villages. Kamysh, the son of a
Chornobyl disaster liquidator, takes us with him into this alien
world. In electric prose that captures the spectral beauty of the
Zone and the reckless spirit of the stalkers, Kamysh tells of
hallucinatory journeys alone amid the rusted ruins, of frantic
brushes with police and moments of ecstatic oblivion in the
wasteland. Written with gonzo energy and brash lyricism, Stalking
the Atomic City is a vital, singular document of this dystopian
reality.
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The book equivalent of a beach
getaway.--PopSugar A stunning debut.--BookRiot The instant national
bestseller about the generations of a family that spends summers in
a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline, for fans of Elin
Hilderbrand and Beatriz Williams 1944: Maren Larsen is a blonde
beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her
part to help the war effort--and to see the world beyond her
family's cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical
Center, she's swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome
Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers in an insular community
on the rocky coast of Maine. 1970: As the nation grapples with the
ongoing conflict in Vietnam, Oliver and Maren are grappling with
their fiercely independent seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie, who
has fallen for a young man they don't approve of. Before the summer
is over a terrible tragedy will strike the Demarests--and in the
aftermath, Annie vows never to return to Haven Point. 2008: Annie's
daughter, Skye, has arrived in Maine to help scatter her mother's
ashes. Maren knows that her granddaughter inherited Annie's view of
Haven Point: despite the wild beauty and quaint customs, the
regattas and clambakes and sing-alongs, she finds the place--and
the people--snobbish and petty. But Maren also knows that Annie
never told Skye the whole truth about what happened during that
fateful summer. Over seven decades of a changing America, through
wars and storms, betrayals and reconciliations, Virginia Hume's
Haven Point explores what it means to belong to a place, and to a
family, which holds as tightly to its traditions as it does its
secrets.
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