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Shelter Is Necessary for Existence
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ISBN10: 1953387594
ISBN13: 9781953387592
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.81
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781953387592
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.81
Language: English
Unsettling and racially charged, Shelter Is Necessary for Existence is equal parts psychological thriller and social satire that explores the disquieting qualities of a privileged family's mundane cultural assumptions. A vicious critique of what constitutes values, both spiritual and superficial and everything in between, among the upper middle class of New York City. Dumbfounding, unique, relentless and wholly satisfying.
--Paula Bomer, author of The Stalker Sue, her husband, Luke, and their children, Caroline and Wheatley, present as a picture-perfect family living the American dream of ascendancy and affluence in their Brooklyn neighborhood. They purchase a brownstone at auction on a coveted tree-lined street with the intention of renovating it and moving in. At once avoidant and consumed by the renovation, Sue is torn between her aspirations to have what those around her seem to possess--from her therapist, Diana, to her alluring, insufferable neighbor Chantal--and her urge to escape the grip of their influences. Sue's obsession and paranoia grow while the neighborhood becomes a hotbed of pulsating antagonisms. It is only after moving in that Sue becomes aware of the mysterious deaths of the brownstone's former residents, a mother and daughter whose voices echo in the silence. The house begins manifesting disturbing signs, such as wounds that bleed, just as Caroline and Wheatley exhibit their own troubling symptoms. Sue's nightmares proliferate and a vacuous stupor overcomes the family as they struggle to settle into the rhythms of life in what should be their dream home. When information arises that threatens to devastate her family, Sue must finally confront the explosive charge of personal and social reality once laid bare. With exacting psychological detail and a trenchant atmosphere, Shelter Is Necessary for Existence is a darkly comic and piercing social critique that examines the troubling territory of awareness, the lengths some go to avoid it, and what must be confronted for change to occur.
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