![]() ![]() ![]() After serving his country, Atticus Turner returns home to Florida to find that his father Montrose has gone missing, prompting a road trip to Chicago to find out what happened. Told in a series of interconnected short stories that form an overall bigger narrative, much of this book takes place in the 1950s following the lives of several members of a black family who find themselves entangled with a cabal of sorcerers in “Lovecraft Country”-a term that has more to do with the rampant racism in that part of the US at the time, rather than the Lovecraftian horror subgenre. ![]() It turned out to be all that, plus a lot more substance. I’ve never read Matt Ruff before and only know of him by his reputation of being a cult novelist, and perhaps I thought I was going to be in for a pulpy horror read, considering the title and the cover. Lovecraft Country was not what I expected, but it was a good kind of different. Publisher: Blackstone Audio (February 16, 2016) Audiobook Review: Lovecraft Country by Matt RuffĪ review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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