For Maddie, an artist who constructs sculptures from various materials, an encounter she had when she was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom ties her to her new reality. Unfortunately, the house is very close to a place where the division between worlds is thin, and the family soon starts experiences things. Between their financial situation and their son Oliver’s struggles with life in the city, Nathan and his wife Maddie decide to move into the house instead of selling it. When Nathan’s father dies from cancer, Nathan inherits the family home. After he left, he made a life of his own, focused on not being like his father, and never told his wife and son about the abuse he suffered. Nathan grew up in the shadow of an abusive father in country home in rural Pennsylvania.

A touching narrative about trauma, magic, and traveling to and from a series of collapsing alternate dimensions, The Book of Accidents is a horror novel that brings some of the best elements of literary fiction and science fiction to play while telling a story focused on the microcosm of a family of three that eventually morphs into a tale where the entire world hangs in the balance. More than about being great, writing is about consistently getting better, and Chuck Wendig’s latest, The Book of Accidents, shows that he’s not only great he’s also really good at improving.

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