Foe: A Novel

From Iain Reid, the author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things, comes a haunting book about the crippling power of isolation and obsession.

In the not-too-distant future, severe climate change has ravaged the farmlands across the north, leaving behind a wildfire-charred wasteland. Here, a farmer and his wife live a solitary life on one of the last remaining farms, raising cattle and harvesting grain—though their silo is never quite full. Their isolated existence is disrupted the day a stranger comes to the door, with a very strange demand. And just like that, the farmer finds himself becoming part of a group of settlers looking to relocate…elsewhere…and a “replacement” will join the farmer’s wife on the farm while he’s gone. This psychologically gripping novel explores the mindset and delusions of people trapped in rapidly declining environments, and as with Reid's pageturning debut, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, "your dread and unease will mount with every passing page” (Entertainment Weekly).