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Foe

By: Iain Reid
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
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Publisher's summary

A taut, philosophical mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

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Junior and Hen are a quiet married couple. They live a comfortable solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with surprising news: Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Hen won’t have a chance to miss him at all, because she won’t be left alone—not even for a moment. Hen will have company. Familiar company.

Foe examines the nature of domestic relationships, self-determination, and what it means to be (or not to be) a person. An eerily entrancing pulse-pounder, it churns with unease and suspense from the first words to its shocking finale.

©2018 Iain Reid (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio
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Critic reviews

“Reid is a master storyteller with a knack for absorbing prose. Most of the action takes place in the microcosm of the couple’s house, but Reid writes about the relationship so well that it becomes a universe full of questions and possibilities.” (Los Angeles Review of Books)

“From the opening page, you’ll have an uneasy feeling as you settle in to Iain’s Reid’s brilliant new novel, Foe. . . . A masterful and breathtakingly unique read. I can’t stop thinking about it.” (Amy Stuart, author of the #1 bestseller Still Mine and Still Water)

“Reid draws his suspense from the same places where we find it in our lives: not knowing what's going to happen next, not truly knowing the people we love, and not even really knowing ourselves.” (Nathan Ripley, author of Find You in the Dark)

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