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***LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION***
Named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time
“An extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writers” (Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel). The Need, which finds a mother of two young children grappling with the dualities of motherhood after confronting a masked intruder in her home, is “like nothing you’ve ever read before…in a good way” (People).
When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it’s the sleep deprivation. She’s been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It’s what mothers do, she knows.
But then the footsteps come again, and she catches a glimpse of movement.
Suddenly Molly finds herself face-to-face with an intruder who knows far too much about her and her family. As she attempts to protect those she loves most, Molly must also acknowledge her own frailty. Molly slips down an existential rabbit hole where she must confront the dualities of motherhood: the ecstasy and the dread; the languor and the ferocity; the banality and the transcendence as the book hurtles toward a mind-bending conclusion.
“Brilliant” (Entertainment Weekly), “grotesque and lovely” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice), and “wildly captivating” (Oprah Daily), The Need is a glorious celebration of the bizarre and beautiful nature of our everyday lives and “showcases an extraordinary writer at her electrifying best” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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“Brilliant…[an] eerie marvel of novel, both beautifully familiar and profoundly strange. (A–).”
— Entertainment Weekly
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“[A] wildly captivating speculative thriller…harrowing and surreal.”
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“The novel—which starts out as conventional suspense—veers into sci-fi and horror territory.”
— New York Times Book Review
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month
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Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction
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About Helen Phillips
Helen Phillips is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the Italo Calvino Prize, among others. Her collection Some Possible Solutions received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award and her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat was a New York Times Notable Book of 2015 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Award. Phillips’ work has been featured on PRI’s Selected Shorts and in Tin House, Electric Literature, and Bomb. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.
About the Narrators
Dennis Boutsikaris is a two-time OBIE award winner. He has received five Audie Awards and seven Golden Earphone Awards for his work in over 100 audiobooks and was voted one of the Best Voices of the Year by AudioFile magazine. He has appeared in numerous Broadway, television, and film roles. He played Mozart on Broadway in Amadeus and has appeared on television shows including Shameless, The Good Wife, House M.D., Grey’s Anatomy, ER, and Law & Order.
Tommy Orange is the author of several books, including There There, a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2019 American Book Award. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He is a graduate from the MFA degree program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow.