Beings

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Named a "Most Anticipated Book" by the LA Times, Washington Post, Autostraddle , and Town and Country From the celebrated author of All My Mother's Lovers , a new novel based on true events asks whether extraterrestrial life might be what ties us to one another, to history, and to reality itself. "Ilana Masad is an exciting talent."-Garth Greenwell "Masad is a writer on the rise."-Kristen Arnett In 1961, an interracial couple drove through the dark mountains of New Hampshire when a mysterious light began to follow them. Years later, through hypnosis, they recalled an unbelievable brush with extraterrestrial life. Unintentionally, a genre was born: the alien abduction narrative. In Ilana Masad's Beings , the couple's experience serves as one part of a trio of intertwined threads: Known only by their roles as husband and wife, Masad explores the pair's trauma and its aftermath and