Author: Peter Gadol
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Date of Publication: October 2018
Rebecca’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone
missing, but when she notifies the police, they seem surprisingly unconcerned.
They suspect he has been playing the “stranger game,” a viral hit in which
players start following others in real life, as they might otherwise do on
social media. As the game spreads, however, the rules begin to change, play
grows more intense and disappearances are reported across the country.
Curious about this popular new obsession, and hoping that
she might be able to track down Ezra, Rebecca tries the game for herself. She
also meets Carey, who is willing to take the game further than she imagined
possible. As her relationship with Carey and involvement in the game deepen,
she begins to uncover an unsettling subculture that has infiltrated the world
around her. In playing the stranger game, what may lead her closer to finding
Ezra may take her further and further from the life she once lived.
A thought-provoking, haunting novel, The Stranger
Game unearths the connections, both imagined and real, that we build
with the people around us in the physical and digital world, and where the
boundaries blur between them.
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About Peter Gadol
Peter Gadol’s seven novels include THE STRANGER GAME, SILVER
LAKE, LIGHT AT DUSK, and THE LONG RAIN. His work his been translated for
foreign editions and appeared in literary journals, including StoryQuarterly,
the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, and Tin House. Gadol lives
in Los Angeles, where he is Chair and Professor of the MFA Writing program at
Otis College of Art and Design.
Visit petergadol.com for
more info on his work.
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