String Follow, Simon Jacobs
String Follow, Simon Jacobs
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String Follow
A Novel

Author: Simon Jacobs

Narrator: Amanda Dolan, James Patrick Cronin

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2022


Synopsis

Simon Jacobs's String Follow is a darkly comic suburban Gothic about a malevolent force that targets a group of Ohio misfits, harnessing their angst for its sinister designs.

Something strange is happening to the teens in Adena, Ohio.

A mysterious force is seeking inroads: vulnerabilities to exploit, friendships to hijack, untapped rage to harness toward its own ends. Who will serve it best? Claire is abrasive and aimless, embarrassed by her privileged upbringing. Weak-willed David is consumed by a recent breakup and harbors fantasies of violent, cultish orgies. Greg silently wages war against the voices in his head, while his sister Beth goes quietly mad, surrounded by lights. And at the center is the empathetic, naïve, sensitive Sarah. The force wants her most of all. The question is whether she will be the key to its success or to its destruction.

Eerie, hypnotic, and shot through with dark comedy, String Follow is a razor-sharp suburban Gothic that cuts deep, exposing the sweating, bleeding truth of how kids become adults in twenty-first-century America. In spellbinding, incisive prose, Simon Jacobs blends the startlingly original and the uncannily familiar, revealing the dark chaos that lurks under the surface of Midwestern suburbia.

A Macmillan Audio production from MCD x FSG Originals.

About Simon Jacobs

Simon Jacobs is the author of the novel Palaces, and the short fiction collections Masterworks and Saturn, a collection of David Bowie stories. His fiction has appeared in Tin House, Black Warrior Review, and Joyland. He’s from Dayton, Ohio.


Reviews

4.0 Stars I understand that a horror book like this won't necessarily be for everyone. The characters in this story are horribly unlikeable and their actions are often vile. This book also requires all the content warnings (domestic abuse, cutting, attempted rape, mass gun violence, etc). For this re......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

A dark, hypnotic horror in the utter bleakness of high school in a post-Columbine world. The title is apt as we move through a group of characters in a way that feels deliberate but also random. Rich, rebellious punk Claire and Sarah who desperately wants to be her friend and Sarah's actual best fri......more

Goodreads review by Ashley

Featured in this reading vlog: [URL not allowed] Not for me. Super slow paced and character-driven, which I usually love, but this one just didn’t do it for me.......more