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Summary
The New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box returns with a supernatural thriller of love, redemption, and murder.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK
"This one haunts you for reasons you can't quite put your finger on. . . . [Josh Malerman] defies categories and comparisons with other writers." -- Kirkus Reviews
Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times . . . but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days.
Only two people know of Carol's eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and--when she lapses into another coma--plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her . . . alive. The other is her lost love, the infamous outlaw James Moxie. When word of Carol's dreadful fate reaches him, Moxie rides the Trail again to save his beloved from an early, unnatural grave.
And all the while, awake and aware, Carol fights to free herself from the crippling darkness that binds her--summoning her own fierce will to survive. As the players in this drama of life and death fight to decide her fate, Carol must in the end battle to save herself.
The haunting story of a woman literally bringing herself back from the dead, Unbury Carol is a twisted take on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale that will stay with you long after you've turned the final page.
Praise for Unbury Carol
"Fantastically clever. A breakneck ride to save a life already lost, proving sometimes death is only the beginning." --J. D. Barker, internationally bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey
"Breathtaking and menacing . . . an intricately plotted, lyrical page-turner about love, betrayal, revenge, and the primal fear of being buried alive." -- Booklist (starred review)
"Unbury Carol is a Poe story set in the weird West we all carry inside us, and it not only hits the ground running, it digs into that ground, too. About six wonderful feet." --Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels
"Bleakly lyrical à la Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor." -- Library Journal (starred review)
"With vivid prose and characters that leap off the page, guns a-blazing, Unbury Carol creates its own lingering legend, dragging you along like an obstinate horse toward a righteous storm of an ending." --Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma
Author Notes
Josh Malerman is an author from Britain who was short listed for the James Herbert Award for Horror writing for his title Bird Box. This title has also made the bestseller list in 2019.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Malerman's fantasy gothic is a grinding of gears moving inexorably towards one another, sometimes so slowly that it seems they will never meet. Carol Evers has a uniquely horrific problem: she occasionally dies, but only for two to four days before waking again, and while dead she hears everything around her. Her husband thinks no one besides him knows her secret, and he plans to quickly bury her the next time she dies so he can claim her enormous fortune. But outlaw James Moxie, Carol's guilt-ridden former lover, rides to save her. While Carol fights to awaken, she is hounded by the insidious personification of Rot, who wants to claim her, and James is pursued by both Rot and a ruthless arsonist assassin hired by Dwight. A few of the side stories feel like distractions, but those of Carol and James, especially their fights against dark beings and metaphorical inner demons, will win this morbid tale some fans. Agent: Kristin Nelson, Nelson Literary. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
In a surreal, Wild West take on Sleeping Beauty, storied outlaw James Moxie must save his one-time lover Carol Evers from being buried alive.Only a few people aside from Carol's shifty husband, Dwight, know that she suffers from a condition that periodically sends her spiraling into a coma resembling death and a place she calls Howltown. "Unable to shoulder the burden of caring for a woman who died so often," Moxie disappeared from her life 20 years ago. Her close friend John Bowie, in whom she also confided, has just died. Fearing that should Dwight die when she's in a coma, no one will know not to bury her, she entrusts her secret to a young maid. But it's Dwight who proves to be her greatest threat. Having had it with her freakish condition and wanting to freely lay hands on her money, he decides to make her latest "death" permanent by burying her alive. To get to her first, Moxie, who is drawn back into Carol's life by an odd funeral announcement dispatched by the maid, must elude a ruthless killer with tin legs named Smokea man "as monstrous as anything local folklore had invented." Other evil forces, as well as good, abound. Though the book sometimes recalls Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Malerman is too fierce an original to allow anyone else's vision to intrude on his. Where other novelists, including Gaiman, would lighten things with humor, Malerman achieves his narrative intensity with a dead seriousness. As with his other novels, this one haunts for reasons you can't quite put your finger on. With another fascinating novel that traffics in strange and transporting states of being, Malerman (Black Mad Wheel, 2017, etc.) again defies categories and comparisons with other writers. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
*Starred Review* Carol is prone to falling into comas that mimic death for days at a time. Only her husband, Dwight, and her friend John Bowie, whose burial opens the novel, know her secret. With Bowie gone for Carol's next spell, Dwight fakes her death and attempts to bury her alive. So begins this retelling of Sleeping Beauty as a tale that mixes suspense, dark fantasy, and the spaghetti western, holding the reader hostage in its magical and sinister thrall. The major players take their turns narrating the story, including but not limited to dastardly Dwight; Carol's long lost, outlaw love, Moxie; and Smoke, the perfectly rendered villain. The most interesting narrator is Carol, trapped in her coma, frantically struggling to save herself. Malerman (Bird Box, 2014) seamlessly blends strong world building, a steadily escalating pace, and a tone that is breathtaking and menacing. This is an intricately plotted, lyrical page turner about love, betrayal, revenge, and the primal fear of being buried alive. Start by suggesting it to fans of atmospheric, supernatural suspense that is both thought-provoking and terrifying, like Keith Donohue's The Motion of Puppets (2016) or Kevin Brockmeier's The Brief History of the Dead (2006), but hand it out freely to anyone looking for a good read.--Spratford, Becky Copyright 2018 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Bram Stoker Award nominee Malerman (Black Mad Wheel) explores a mythical-and mystical-Old West's deceptively quiet landscape, where denizens maintain social façades masking fears common to those living in the wild. After the loss of a beloved friend, Carol and Dwight Evers wonder who now might be trusted with Carol's chilling secret: unpredictable death-like comas lasting several days. She dreads lapsing into the condition if her husband suffers some deadly accident and leaves her vulnerable to live burial. They must tell someone. But before Carol can do this, she's once more taken to Howltown (her term for her coma). Aware of Carol's past love James Moxie, the Evers' maid telegrams him the sad news of her employer's "death." Unknown to Dwight, who plans burying Carol as quickly as possible in order to abscond with her great fortune, James is not only an outlaw, but he genuinely loves Carol-and knows her secret (which prompted his abandoning her). But James is pursued by more than guilt. Also on his trail is a hired assassin, himself stalked by an otherworldly manifestation of death also hungering for Carol. VERDICT Admirers of the bleakly lyrical à la Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor's gothic grotesque will find this appealing. [See Prepub Alert, 10/22/17.]-William Grabowski, McMechen, WV © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.