Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another. Neither knows the other existsâuntil now. The New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box invites you into a world of secrets and chills in a coming-of-age story like no other.
NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD ⢠âJosh Malerman is a master at unsettling youâand keeping you off-balance until the last page is turned.ââChuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Blackbirds
J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world.
J is one of only twenty-six students, all of whom think of the schoolâs enigmatic founder as their father. Jâs peers are the only family he has ever had. The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life at the school is all they knowâand all they are allowed to know.
But J suspects that there is something out there, beyond the pines, that the founder does not want him to see, and heâs beginning to ask questions. What is the real purpose of this place? Why can the students never leave? And what secrets is their father hiding from them?
Meanwhile, on the other side of the forest, in a school very much like Jâs, a girl named K is asking the same questions. J has never seen a girl, and K has never seen a boy. As K and J work to investigate the secrets of their two strange schools, they come to discover something even more mysterious: each other.
Praise for Inspection
âCreepy. . . a novel whose premise is also claustrophobic and unsettling, but more ambitious than that of Bird Box . . . Inspection is rich with dread and builds to a dramatic climax.ââThe Washington Post
âThis unlikely cross between 1984 and Lord of the Flies tantalizes.ââKirkus Reviews
âMalerman builds a striking world. . . . As he did in Bird Box, Malermanâs crafted an irresistible scenario thatâs rich in possibility and thematic fruit. . . . Where [Bird Box] confined us behind a blindfold, Inspection rips it off.â âThe A. V. Club
âA must read . . . Itâs a wonderful thing, digging into a new Josh Malerman novelâno idea what to expect, no clue where his twisted mind is going to take you.ââCemetery Dance
