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THE FEVER holds true to its title Its dark, disturbing, strangely beautiful and utterly unshakeable -- Gillian Flynn. In this impossible-to-put-down panic attack of a novel, a small-town high school becomes the breeding ground for a mysterious illness. Deenie Nash is a diligent student with a close-knit family her brother Eli is a hockey star and her father is a popular teacher. But when Deenies best friend is struck by a terrifying, unexplained seizure in class, the Nashes seeming stability dissolves into chaos. As rumors of a hazardous outbreak spread through school, and hysteria and contagion swell, a series of tightly held secrets emerges, threatening to unravel friendships, families, and the towns fragile sense of security. A chilling story about guilt, family secrets, and the lethal power of desire, THE FEVER is a potboiler in the truest, best sense and a great novel, full stop.
About the Author
MEGAN ABBOTT is the Edgar award-winning author of seven novels, including DARE ME, THE END OF EVERYTHING and her latest, THE FEVER, which won both the International Thriller Writers and Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by Amazon, National Public Radio, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times. Her stories have appeared in anthologies including Detroit Noir, Queens Noir and the Best American Mystery Stories of 2014.
She is also the author of The Street Was Mine, a study of hardboiled fiction and film noir. Her next novel, You Will Know Me, comes out in July 2016. She has been nominated for awards including the Steel Dagger, the LA Times Book Prize and the Pushcart Prize. Currently, she is working on developing DARE ME and THE FEVER for television. Megan is a staff writer on HBO's forthcoming David Simon show, The Deuce.
Born in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in English Literature and went on to receive her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. She lives in Queens, New York City.
