Five teens are caught in a continuous time loop where they are forced to choose who lives and who dies in this absorbing psychological thriller from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film.
"Beautifully creepy." --The New York Times
"You won't be able to stop reading." --Refinery29
"Dark and twisty." --BustleFive friends. Only one can survive. Who would you choose?It's been one year since graduation, and Beatrice Hartley has mixed feelings about joining her friends a weekend reunion. She's right to be worried. After a night out, they narrowly avoid a collision with a car on a deserted road. Or so they believe...
Back at the mansion where they are staying, a mysterious man knocks on the door during a raging storm. He tells them that they must make a choice: one of them will live, and the rest will die. And the decision must be unanimous.
Soon time backbends. Beatrice and her friends are forced to repeat that dreadful day so many times they lose count. With each replay, events twist and fears come alive in horrifying ways.
To escape, they have to vote. But how do you choose who to kill? And then how do you live with yourself? This nightmare, this nothingness . . . this is the Neverworld Wake.
From critically acclaimed, literary sensation, Marisha Pessl, comes a spellbinding story that is
"the kind of book you'll tear through and then want to talk about with everyone you know." (Nylon).
Marisha Pessl is the author of
Night Film and
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize) and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by
The New York Times Book Review. Pessl grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and currently resides in New York City.
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year "
Neverworld Wake is a shape-shifting binge read . . . It's
a 'clear your calendar' kind of one-day read." --Melissa Albert,
New York Times bestselling author of
The Hazel World"An altogether
eerie, philosophically challenging exploration of the ways in which our actions have consequences . . . the kind of book you'll tear through and then want to talk about with everyone you know immediately after finishing." --
Nylon"The first
must-read of beach season." --
Town & Country★ "
Sophisticated."—VOYA
, starred review
"Pessl (
Special Topics in Calamity Physics) adeptly creates a compelling nightmare world while maintaining a foothold in realism.
Thought-provoking and suspenseful." --
PW"Unpredictable, exciting, and
emotionally wrenching." --
SLJ
"An
eloquent and haunting tale." --
Kirkus Reviews
"Odd,
atmospheric." --
Booklist “A dark and twisty tale
brimming with psychological suspense.” —Bustle
