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DESCRIPTION:Chaucer's Bookstore (Santa Barbara\, California) will host awar
 d-winning author Alma Katsu for a free virtual book dicussion on April 27\
 , 2022 at 6 p.m. (Pacific).  The writer will discuss her latest book\, "T
 he Fervor"\, a horror novel set in a Japanese-American incarceration camp 
 with journalist Michael Takeuchi.\n\nFor event information\, please click 
 here: https://www.chaucersbooks.com/event/virtual-even-award-winning-horr
 or-author-alma-katsu-fervor\n\nTo watch this event on Zoom\, please click 
 here:<a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85873880920">https://us06web.zoom.
 us/j/85873880920</a>\n\nTo watch this on our YouTube channel live\, or rec
 orded\, click here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRVxV4ZOqkm
 nBj8TvT25NFQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRVxV4ZOqkmnBj8TvT25NFQ</a>
 \n\n<span/>\n\n<span style="font-weight: bold\;">THE FERVOR\n\n<span style
 ="font-weight: bold\;">The acclaimed author of the celebrated literary hor
 ror novels <em>The Hunger </em><span style="font-weight: bold\;">and <e
 m>The Deep</em><span style="font-weight: bold\;"> turns her psychological
  and supernatural eye on the horrors of the Japanese American internment c
 amps in World War II.\n\n1944: As World War II rages on\, the threat has c
 ome to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho\, Meiko Briggs and her 
 daughter\, Aiko\, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband'
 s enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior\, Meiko and
  Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internm
 ent camps in the Midwest. It didn’t matter that Aiko was American-born: 
 They were Japanese\, and therefore considered a threat by the American gov
 ernment.\n \nMother and daughter attempt to hold on to elements of their 
 old life in the camp when a mysterious disease begins to spread among tho
 se interned. What starts as a minor cold quickly becomes spontaneous fits 
 of violence and aggression\, even death. And when a disconcerting team of 
 doctors arrive\, nearly more threatening than the illness itself\, Meiko a
 nd her daughter team up with a newspaper reporter and widowed missionary t
 o investigate\, and it becomes clear to them that something more sinister 
 is afoot\, a demon from the stories of Meiko’s childhood\, hell-bent on 
 infiltrating their already strange world.  \n \nInspired by the Japanes
 e <em>yokai</em> and the <em>jorogumo </em>spider demon\, <em>The Fer
 vor</em> explores the horrors of the supernatural beyond just the threat 
 of the occult. With a keen and prescient eye\, Katsu crafts a terrifying s
 tory about the danger of demonization\, a mysterious contagion\, and the s
 earch to stop its spread before it's too late. A sharp account of too-rece
 nt history\, it's a deep excavation of how we decide who gets to be human 
 when being human matters most.\n\n<span/>\n\nAlma Katsu Photo by Steve Par
 ke\n\n<strong>Alma Katsu</strong> is the award-winning author of six nove
 ls\, most recently <em>Red Widow</em>\, <em>The Deep</em>\, and <em>The
  Hunger.</em> She is a graduate of the master's writing program at the Jo
 hns Hopkins University and received her bachelor's degree from Brandeis Un
 iversity. Prior to the publication of her first novel\, Katsu had a long c
 areer as a senior intelligence analyst for several U.S. agencies. She live
 s in West Virginia with her husband.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk with Award-Winning Horror Author Alma Katsu
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