Welcome to Night Vale, Joseph Fink
Welcome to Night Vale, Joseph Fink
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Welcome to Night Vale
A Novel

Bestseller

Author: Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Narrator: Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Retta, Therese Plummer, Dan Bittner

Unabridged: 12 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/20/2015


Synopsis

?New York Times Bestseller""Hypnotic and darkly funny. . . . Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in."" —The Guardian“A splendid, weird, moving novel.”— NPR.orgFrom the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves. . . no matter where we live.Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked ""KING CITY"" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels.Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter. And lately Diane's started to see her son's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it.Diane's search to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: ""KING CITY"". It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures...if they can ever find it.

About Joseph Fink

Joseph Fink is the creator of the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn't Dead podcasts, and the New York Times bestselling author of Welcome to Night Vale, It Devours!, and The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home (all written with Jeffrey Cranor), and Alice Isn’t Dead. He is also the author of the middle-grade novel, The Halloween Moon. He and his wife, Meg Bashwiner, have written the memoir The First Ten Years. They live together in the Hudson River Valley.

About Jeffrey Cranor

Jeffrey Cranor cowrites the Welcome to Night Vale and Within the Wires podcasts. He also cocreates theater and dance pieces with choreographer/wife Jillian Sweeney. They live in New York.

About Cecil Baldwin

Cecil Baldwin is the narrator of the Welcome To Night Vale podcast and has been featured on podcasts such as Ask Me Another, Selected Shorts, Shipwreck, Big Data and Our Fair City. He lives in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on November 08, 2023

I will be writing, have been writing, or have already written (depending on when you see this. Time is strange here on GR) a review of Welcome to Night Vale. But until/when/after I do (or until you return from whatever time stream you are in to read this, or move ahead into another one) I can offer......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on June 10, 2016

What the fuck just happened? This book is a whole lot of things; it is weird and completely perplexing; it is hilarious and confusing; it is cynical and brilliant. But, most importantly, it is impossible to put down. Nothing makes any sense. So I had to reach ending, and fast, to discover what the f......more

Goodreads review by jv on October 17, 2022

This wacky, wonderfully weird book was already on my radar when one of 'my' High School students enthusiastically recommended it. Of course that moved it right to the top o' the stack and I'm so very thankful. This reads as if Tom Robbins ate acid, then paired up with Hunter S. Thompson to create a c......more

Goodreads review by Cyna on October 28, 2015

Oh my god, I’d been looking forward to this release all season you guys. I thought FOR SURE this would be a slam dunk, NO WAY the Welcome to Night Vale novel would be anything but satisfactory. A GRAND, FIRE-WORKY finale to this season’s Spooktacular slog. And then it was just kind of ok. So, the thin......more