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Chuck wendig the book of accidents5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He goes there to witness (and in a way, confront) his dead father, who waits in repose. In this excerpt, the father of a family of three - Nate, married to Maddie, the two of them parents to teen boy Oliver - goes to the house he grew up in as a kid, a house whose horrors he escaped from long ago. Less “fire in the sky” and more “emotional cataclysm.” It’s about trauma circuits and abuse cycles, but also about how we end those dangerous loops - sometimes in ways that are freeing, and sometimes in ways that are terrifying. (Sound familiar? Oops.)īut with this next book, The Book of Accidents, it’s more about those little apocalypses - those small but significant events that roll up on us and rock us to our core, that threaten who we are and what we’ve built, that represent the ending of things. That’s the kind of apocalypse I wrote with in my book Wanderers (2019), where people begin mysteriously sleepwalking toward an unknown destination while a second disease, White Mask, rises like a specter across an America savaged by diseased politics and white supremacy. The ones that come to mind are big ones - a meteor hits, a nuclear bomb goes off, or ahem ahem ahem, a pandemic throttles humanity and crushes civilization under its. ![]() ![]() There are apocalypses, and then there are apocalypses. Here’s a taste of what to expect from the writer’s latest. With the book now out on shelves, we’re reupping the passage, along with Wendig’s own introduction written for Polygon readers. Last December, Polygon premiered the first excerpt of Chuck Wendig’s new novel, The Book of Accidents. ![]()
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