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Deprivation
Author: Roy Freirich
Narrator: T. Ryder Smith
Unabridged: 8 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Published: 03/03/2020
Category: Fiction
Synopsis
After a mysterious, silent child is found abandoned on the beach clutching a handheld video game, residents and tourists alike find themselves utterly unable to sleep. Exhaustion impairs judgment, delusions become hysteria, and mob rule explodes into shocking violence. Told from three perspectives: Chief of Police Mays tries to keep order, teenaged tourist Cort and her friends compete in a dangerous social media contest for the most hours awake, while local physician and former Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Sam Carlson battles his guilt over a student's suicide and the blurriness of his own insomnia, to try to treat the sleeplessuntil he and the child must flee the violent mob that blames the child for the epidemic.