We know that the boys vary in size, shape, and race why doesn't one or more of them have terrible B.O. Well, none of them have hit it yet, which is one of the snags early in the book. The second nastiness, from Richard's perspective: His boys have hit "the Recasting Years," meaning puberty. Keeping his charges unsullied means that those who learn about women are deemed "spoiled rotten" and sent to The Corner, a frightening, hidden place where brothers A and Z went a few years earlier. Their fiendish, tyrannical caregiver, Richard, calls himself "D.A.D." He believes that, separated from the opposite sex's distraction, his "boys" will grow up to be unusually strong, brilliant and detached, leaders for a new age.īut there are a couple of nasty flies in Richard's ointment. Malerman's latest novel, Inspection, has a surprising premise, too: In an isolated towerlike building, 24 12-year-old boys have been raised from infancy without knowledge of girls or women. Josh Malerman's 2014 debut, Bird Box, remains one of the most surprising, electrifying books I've ever read, a chilling fable-cum-thriller about a young mother who must navigate herself and her two children to safety down a river while blindfolded. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Inspection Author Josh Malerman
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