Brood - Hardcover

"Charmingly grotesque . . . B-movie bliss in which gore gets so gratuitous, it's occasionally funny-and always fun. . . . The people-eaters bring out the best in Chase Novak . . . His prose sings with joy." Colin Dwyer, "NPR""

"Like all good literary horror, a sense of foreboding piggybacks on a layer of strong emotion, and here it's tweaked by the characters' desperate, haunting desire for connections." "Booklist""

""A satirical supernatural thriller . . . Genuine rat-inspired horror." "Publishers Weekly""

"Novak ably combines realism and the supernatural." "Kirkus Reviews""

"Gruesome and grimly funny" "BookPage""

"[Novak's] prose sings with joy when he describes the snap of a bone, delights - and disturbs - when he dredges dark humor from the aftermath. Simply put, the people-eaters bring out the best in Chase Novak." "Colin Dwyer, NPR""

"A satirical supernatural thriller . . . Genuine rat-inspired horror." "Publishers Weekly""

Teenagers Adam and Alice struggle with the terrifying reality that they are reaching the age when some of the children created by the fertility treatment that spawned them begin to turn feral, while their aunt, Cynthia, fights to protect their lives from a troop of feral offspring threatening to invade their refuge. 35,000 first printing.