Shriek: An Afterword

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An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris--previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer's?acclaimed City of Saints & Madmen--Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies.
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Narrated with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions by ex-society figure Janice Shriek,?this afterword presents a vivid gallery of characters and events, emphasizing the adventures of?Janice's brother Duncan, a historian obsessed with a doomed love affair and a secret that may kill or transform him; a war between rival publishing houses that will change Ambergris forever; and the gray caps, a marginalized people?armed with advanced fungal technologies who have been?waiting underground for their chance to mold the?future of the city.
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Part academic treatise, part tell-all biography, after this introduction to the Family Shriek, you’ll never look at history in quite the same way again.