Malerman's latest novel, Inspection, has a surprising premise, too: In an isolated towerlike building, 24 12-year-old boys have been raised from infancy without knowledge of girls or women. Josh Malerman's 2014 debut, Bird Box, remains one of the most surprising, electrifying books I've ever read, a chilling fable-cum-thriller about a young mother who must navigate herself and her two children to safety down a river while blindfolded. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. In Inspection, the masterful author of Bird Box crafts a sinister and evocative gender equality anthem that will have readers guessing until the final page.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Inspection Author Josh Malerman As K and J work to investigate the secrets of their two strange schools, they come to discover something even more mysterious: each other. J has never seen a girl, and K has never seen a boy. Meanwhile, on the other side of the forest, in a school very much like J's, a girl named K is asking the same questions. What is the real purpose of this place? Why can the students never leave? And what secrets is their father hiding from them? The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, but their life at the school is all they know-and all they are allowed to know.īut J is beginning to suspect that there is something out there, beyond the pines, that the founder does not want him to see, and he's beginning to ask questions. And his fellow peers are the only family J has ever had.
J is one of only twenty-six students, who think of their enigmatic school's founder as their father. J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. The innovative author of Bird Box invites you into a tantalizing world of secrets and lies.
And neither knows the other exists-until now. Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another.
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