The story is narrated by J, K, and Warren Bratt, a man hired to write all the leisure books the boys read. As the kids reach puberty, K, a Letter Girl, starts becoming more curious about the world around her. Three miles away sits a similar complex full of girls who have no knowledge of men. Raised by D.A.D., also known as Richard, they have no idea that women exist Richard hypothesizes that this will make them smarter and less distracted. They also don’t know that the world holds anything but men. The Alphabet Boys don’t know what that means, exactly, but they know it’s bad. There used to be one for every letter of the alphabet, but when J was just two, A and Z were sent to the Corner. Deep in the woods of Michigan sits a complex full of young boys. As K and J work to investigate the secrets of their two strange schools, they come to discover something even more mysterious: each other.In this strange, uneven horror novel, Malerman ( Unbury Carol) depicts a mad couple’s experiment in trying to separate the sexes. 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, and their life at the school is all they know - and all they are allowed to know.īut J suspects 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. J’s peers are the only family he has ever had. J is one of only twenty-six students, all of whom think of the school’s enigmatic founder as their father.
J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. “Josh Malerman is a master at unsettling you - and keeping you off-balance until the last page is turned.” - Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Blackbirds The New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box invites you into a world of secrets and horror in a coming-of-age story like no other. Neither knows the other exists - until now. Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another.
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