Lovecraft Country

<p><b>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling book behind the HBO Series from J.J. Abrams, Misha Green and Jordan Peele (Director of <i>Get Out</i>).</b><br><br><b>A blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Matt Ruff's <i>Lovecraft Country</i> is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism – the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.</b><br><br>Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George – publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide – and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite – heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors – they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.<br><br>At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn – led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb – which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his – and the whole Turner clan’s – destruction.<br><br><b>'At every turn, Ruff has great fun pitting mid-twentieth-century horror and sci-fi clichés against the banal and ever present bigotry of the era' -<i> New York Times Book Review</i><i>.</i></b></p>