"Foe is a tale of implacably mounting peril that feels all the more
terrifying for being told in such a quiet, elegantly stripped-down
voice. Iain Reid knows how to do 'ominous' as well as anyone I've ever
read." --Scott Smith, author of The Ruins and A Simple Plan
A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I'm
Thinking of Ending Things.
We don't get visitors. Not out here. We never have.
In Iain Reid's second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in
the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life
on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each
other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming news:
Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the
farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already
been made so that when he leaves, Henrietta won't have a chance to miss
him, because she won't be left alone--not even for a moment. Henrietta
will have company. Familiar company.
Told in Reid's sharp and evocative style, Foe examines the nature of
domestic relationships, self-determination, and what it means to be (or
not to be) a person. An eerily entrancing page-turner, it churns with
unease and suspense from the first words to its shocking finale.
