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Deprivation
by Roy Freirich
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Overview
After a mysterious, silent child is found abandoned on the beach clutching a handheld video game, residents and tourists alike find themselves utterly unable to sleep. Exhaustion impairs judgment, delusions become hysteria, and mob rule explodes into shocking violence. Told from three perspectives: Chief of Police Mays tries to keep order, teenaged tourist Cort and her friends compete in a dangerous social media contest for the most hours awake, while local physician and former Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Sam Carlson battles his guilt over a student's suicide and the blurriness of his own insomnia, to try to treat the sleepless--until he and the child must flee the violent mob that blames the child for the epidemic.
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- ISBN-13: 9781946154217
- ISBN-10: 1946154210
- Publisher: Meerkat Press, LLC
- Publish Date: March 2020
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.85 pounds
- Page Count: 275
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