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Wake up and open your eyes / Clay McLeod Chapman.

ISBN: 9781683693956
ISBN: 1683693957
Physical Description: 382 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Philadelphia : Quirk Books, 2025.
Copyright: &copy;2025

Summary:

Noah has been losing his polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reawakening” is here, he assumes it’s related to one of her many conspiracy theories. But when his phone calls go unanswered, Noah makes the drive from Brooklyn to Richmond, Virginia. There, he discovers his childhood home in shambles and his parents locked in a terrifying trancelike state in front of the TV. Panicked, Noah attempts to snap them out of it. Then Noah’s mother brutally attacks him. But Noah isn’t the only person to be attacked by a loved one. Families across the country are tearing each other apart — literally — as people succumb to a form of possession that gets worse the more time they spend glued to a screen. In Noah’s Richmond-based family, only he and his young nephew Marcus are unaffected. Together, they must race back to the safe haven of Brooklyn — but can they make it before they fall prey to the violent hordes?