Acceptance
‘Pure reading pleasure’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'Genuinely potent and dream-haunting writing’ GUARDIAN
‘Powerful and echoing’ NEW STATESMAN
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With an introduction by Helen MacDonald
Area X has rebuffed expedition after expedition for decades, refusing to reveal its secrets. As it expands alarmingly, the Southern Reach agency tasked with its investigation has collapsed in confusion. Now, one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may yet hold vital answers. How was Area X created, and why? Can it be stopped?
In this climactic volume of the Southern Reach trilogy, reality mutates and mysteries resolve, but now that so many questions have answers, the consequences are no less profound – or terrifying.
'Pure reading pleasure' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘Arresting, unsettling, and unforgettable’ NEW YORKER
'Contemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels' GUARDIAN
Jeff VanderMeer’s New York Times–bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy has been translated into more than thirty-seven languages. The first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. His other books include Hummingbird Salamander, Dead Astronauts, Borne (in development as a TV series at AMC), and The Strange Bird. VanderMeer has lectured at MIT, Yale, Vanderbilt, and Columbia. Most recently, he gave the John Hersey Memorial Address at the Key West Literary Seminar. His Florida reporting has appeared in Current Affairs, TIME, the Nation, and Esquire. VanderMeer lives in Tallahassee.