The Flame Alphabet

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First edition. Large octavo with blue and red half-cloth boards in red/blue/yellow/green pictorial jacket; 289 pages; 25 cm Near fine copy with very minor edgewear; near fine jacket with slightest edgewear. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780307379375

Marcus creates a chilling world where the speech of children is killing their parents. After being forced to leave their daughter Esther to fend for herself, Sam and Claire end up at a government lab intent on creating non-lethal speech. But when Sam discovers the truth about what's going on there, he realizes reuniting with his daughter is the only way to keep his sanity. // Communication in families, Fiction, Domestic fiction, Dystopias, Fiction, Parent and child, Parent and child Fiction