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When Chelsea Martin kisses her husband hello at the door of their perfect home, she may look like the ideal wife, mother, and homemakerbut in fact she's carefully navigating David's stormy moods. If family time doesn't go exactly the way David wants, bad things happen. But the façade crumbles when a mysterious condition overtakes the nation. Known as the Violence, it causes the infected to experience sudden, explosive bursts of animalistic rage and attack anyone in their path. The ensuing chaos brings opportunity for Chelseaand inspires a plan to liberate herself and her family once and for all.
About the author
Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling writer of many novels and comics. She also writes under the pen name Lila Bowen. Her new
standalone, The Violence, a generational trauma tale set during a pandemic of random outbreaks of violence is published in 2022. Delilah is the winner of the 2015 Fantasy Book of the Year from RT Book Reviews for Wake of Vultures and the 2013 Steampunk Book of the Year and May Seal of Excellence for Wicked As She Wants. Her work has earned multiple stars from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. She lives in north Atlanta with her family.
Summary
"Delilah Dawson might have written the novel that defines this era."-Stephen Graham Jones, NYT bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. A provocative, timely, heart-wrenching thriller that will appeal to fans of Naomi Alderman's The Power and Christina Sweeney-Baird's The End of Men.
