A hypnotic onion of a puzzle…peel back one layer and find more questions, fewer answers. All the more triumphant in its building frustration, eventual catharsis. Area X is all of us and none of us, nowhere and everywhere, peering at us with a thousand impossible eyes.”
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer, (List Price: $18, Picador, 9781250824066, July 2024)
Reviewed by Morgan Holub, E. Shaver Bookseller in Savannah, Georgia