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The story follows Icy, a young girl in rural Eastern Kentucky during the 1950s and 1960s, whose Tourette's syndrome is misdiagnosed as mental illness — until she discovers that many of the people at a revivalist tent meeting exhibit similar tics, leading her to believe it may be something spiritual rather than medical. 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Told through dense, stream-of-consciousness prose that mirrors the paranoia of wartime Belfast, the story builds toward a violent confrontation between the two men in her life.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2bqt5dfbkyncbysz8ppcrk.jpg?v=7f8160af5e","LAF#~+xC00EKD%?H%J%M~pD%%MD*",2018,394,[542],{"id":543,"slug":544,"name":545},"01kx2bqt57bhbjv30w9t08r26e","anna-burns-wjqd","Anna Burns",[547,548],{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":20},{"id":279,"name":280,"slug":281,"is_fiction":20},[],{"pace":76,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":551,"themes":552,"setting_period":7,"summary":536,"content_warnings":7},[82,260,285],[],{"id":554,"slug":555,"title":556,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":557,"cover_blurhash":558,"first_publish_year":294,"community_rating_avg":215,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":559,"authors":560,"genres":565,"series":568,"enrichment":569},"01kx2aj0tb6ad8zya1fafycamw","notes-on-a-scandal-what-was-she-thinking-ryz3","Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2aj0tx3qwx9589hw3s8qnr.jpg?v=6788bb865c","LLFNkq0jIrxp};IqNIkB0-=]xDNK",272,[561],{"id":562,"slug":563,"name":564},"01kx2aj0ts0m2nyks4zbs3dh3h","zoe-heller-qhjx","Zoe Heller",[566,567],{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":20},{"id":279,"name":280,"slug":281,"is_fiction":20},[],{"pace":358,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":570,"themes":571,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[82,260,111],[],{"id":573,"slug":574,"title":575,"description":576,"primary_cover_url":577,"cover_blurhash":578,"first_publish_year":579,"community_rating_avg":215,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":580,"authors":581,"genres":586,"series":589,"enrichment":590},"01kx2b7r5p1ssecwbpebq02pme","the-adjunct-4xog","The Adjunct","From the author of How to Be Eaten, a “darkly funny, deeply incisive” (Booklist) take on the campus novel that follows a woman on the edge gigging her way through academia’s poor job market when she crosses paths with her old PhD adviser, whose new novel might be about her. 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Then she learns that Tom left his old job for undisclosed reasons—and his long-awaited second novel is about a professor reckoning with his checkered past. As rumors spread that Sam is the inspiration behind a central character, she fights to regain control of the story. An “entertaining, provocative” (Brooklyn Rail) look at how hustle culture has come to define modern academia, The Adjunct offers a bold twist on a tangled MeToo story and turns Sam’s downward spiral into a searing critique of class and the hollow promises of the American dream.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2b7r6a2n3dch6m59kekf4a.jpg?v=ee37c1e789","L9Q$3B_3*Kl;8wMd-:d9p1VHHVxn",2026,352,[582],{"id":583,"slug":584,"name":585},"01kx2b7r63kzcfzgh9pxyhnf7s","maria-adelmann-sis1","Maria Adelmann",[587,588],{"id":329,"name":330,"slug":331,"is_fiction":20},{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":20},[],{"pace":234,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":591,"themes":592,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[237,132],[593],"morally-grey",{"id":595,"slug":596,"title":597,"description":598,"primary_cover_url":599,"cover_blurhash":600,"first_publish_year":98,"community_rating_avg":215,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":601,"authors":602,"genres":607,"series":610,"enrichment":611},"01kx281jep4vwa403f8ntp99nd","miracle-creek-pgx1","Miracle Creek","\"A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son\"-- In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine-- a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic 'dives' with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. When the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial upends the Yoos' small community. The ensuing trial uncovers unimaginable secrets from that night-- trysts in the woods, mysterious notes, child-abuse charges-- as well as tense rivalries and alliances among a group of people driven to extraordinary degrees of desperation and sacrifice. -- adapted from jacket","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx281jff9jrcavqh5jcam404.jpg?v=622af39df1","L4Al*419@q16.A=y0z^km$0e~BA1",368,[603],{"id":604,"slug":605,"name":606},"01kx281jf4s0ktaj04bvjkettg","angie-kim-gzn8","Angie Kim",[608,609],{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":20},{"id":304,"name":305,"slug":306,"is_fiction":20},[],{"pace":234,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":612,"themes":613,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[260,82],[614,615],"multiple-povs","betrayal",{"id":617,"slug":618,"title":619,"description":620,"primary_cover_url":621,"cover_blurhash":622,"first_publish_year":623,"community_rating_avg":624,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":7,"authors":625,"genres":630,"series":633,"enrichment":634},"01kx2c3kw5edh8xn2x3h3twxvw","swimming-lessons-s9mx","Swimming Lessons","Returning home to care for her aging father twelve years after her mother's disappearance, Flora discovers that before she went missing, her mother wrote letters to her father about their marriage and hid them among his thousands of books.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2c3kwgw248fwcexysbqx4k.jpg?v=69531a0924","LqMtNqocE9xZ?day-na}E9WXjrR+",2017,"2.00",[626],{"id":627,"slug":628,"name":629},"01kwc9ynw7qs37zjm984qhd3ac","claire-fuller-37bv","Claire Fuller",[631,632],{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":20},{"id":279,"name":280,"slug":281,"is_fiction":20},[],{"pace":76,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":635,"themes":636,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[81,111],[],[638],{"id":639,"slug":640,"title":641,"user":642,"work_id":4,"is_draft":19,"verified_reader":20,"featured":19,"body":649,"overall_rating":650,"depth":7,"momentum":7,"atmosphere":7,"craft":7,"impact":7,"spice":7,"spoiler_level":651,"locale":7,"feed_item_key":652,"like_count":17,"comment_count":17,"top_likers":653,"viewer_can_reply":19,"created_at":654,"updated_at":654},"01kx2h3x74pm8s79bm34w9grp2","review-of-slamming-open-the-door-by-tara-nelson","Review of \"Slamming Open the Door\" by tara_nelson",{"id":643,"name":644,"username":645,"avatar_url":646,"is_system":19,"published_reviews_count":647,"books_read_count":648},622,"Tara Nelson","tara_nelson","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Favatars\u002F622.webp?v=1783556101",1064,1246,"Slamming Open the Door is a collection of poems written in the aftermath of the murder of the author's daughter.  I found these poems powerful and moving.  Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno puts into words all of the feelings she has surrounding the heartache of losing a child.  I was moved by this collection.  I would recommend this book to anyone.",5,"none","rv-01kx2h3x74pm8s79bm34w9grp2",[],"2026-07-09T04:10:32.000000Z"]