Parasites Like Us A Novel [Paperback]

The debut novel by the author ofThe Orphan Master's Son (winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize) and the story collectionFortune Smiles(winner of the 2015 National Book Award)

Hailed as remarkable by theNew Yorker,Emporiumearned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T.C. Boyle. In his acclaimed first novel,Parasites Like Us, Johnson takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankind's quest for its own past.

Anthropologist Hank Hannah has just illegally exhumed an ancient American burial site and winds up in jail. But the law will soon be the least of his worries. For, buried beside the bones, a timeless menace awaits that will set the modern world back twelve thousand years and send Hannah on a quest to save that which is dearest to him. A brilliantly evocative apocalyptic adventure told with Adam Johnson's distinctive dark humor,Parasites Like Usis a thrilling tale of mankind on the brink of extinction.

A fantastically twisted and terrifying first novel. (Esquire)

A grim romp of a first novel... great ingenuity and bravado . . . an artifact of real ambition and originality. (The New York Times Book Review)Adam Johnson, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared inEsquire,The Paris Review,Harper's,Missouri Review, andNew England Review, as well asBest New American Voices. He is the author of the short story collectionEmporiumandThe Orphan Master's Son, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

INTRODUCTION

Adam Johnson's short stories have been praised as Salingeresque (New York Times), remarkable (New Yorker), and creating a searing juxtaposition between scientific progress and its futility in the face of mortality (San Francisco Chronicle). Now, withParasites Like UslÛ