The opening of Blackwater brings catastrophe and a new inhabitant to the town of Perdido.

Michael McDowell begins a family saga in which the uncanny enters the arrangements of everyday life. This is the place to start the sequence. Choose it for slow-building Southern Gothic, where power within a household and the forces surrounding a town become parts of the same unsettling world.

WHO IS IT FOR?

For readers who like speculative premises with a darker or unsettling edge.