Welcome to Night Vale (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062351425)

From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live.

"Hypnotic and darkly funny. . . . Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in."--The Guardian

Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.

Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels.

Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter. And lately Diane's started to see her son's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it.

Diane's search to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: "KING CITY". It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures...if they can ever find it.

Author: Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
ISBN-10: 0062351427
ISBN-13: 9780062351425
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2015
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.36w x 1.31d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 186983 / Welcome to Night Vale


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2015 pg. 52
Publishers Weekly 04/27/2015
Entertainment Weekly 08/14/2015 pg. 64
Library Journal 09/01/2015 pg. 91
Booklist 09/01/2015 pg. 56
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2015 pg. 75
Shelf Awareness 10/30/2015
Library Journal 05/01/2015