6/30/2023 0 Comments Above by isla morleyAbove is a riveting tale of resilience in which ?stunning? (Daily Beast) new literary voice Isla Morley compels us to imagine what we would do if everything we had ever known was taken away. As Blythe's dream of going home hangs in the balance, she faces the ultimate choice?between survival and freedom. Years later, their lives are ambushed by an event at once promising and devastating. Determined to give the boy everything she has lost, she pushes aside the truth about a world he may never see for a myth that just might give meaning to their lives below ground. But nothing prepares Blythe for the burden of raising a child in confinement. At first, she focuses frantically on finding a way out, until the harrowing truth of her new existence settles in?the crushing loneliness, the terrifying madness of a captor who believes he is saving her from the end of the world, and the persistent temptation to give up. Poe).Blythe Hallowell is sixteen when she is abducted by a survivalist and locked away in an abandoned missile silo in Eudora, Kansas. Deftly told, this tale of human resilience in the face of madness is a horror classic for our times? (Lynn Cullen, bestselling author of Mrs. ?Reeled out with the chilling calmness of a Hitchcock film, Above haunts as it illuminates.
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