The Flame Alphabet

The Flame Alphabet

By Ben Marcus
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“Powerfully strange and frequently disturbing…It’s a rich testament to Marcus’ gifts that in a story about the death of language, his words frequently come together in ways to be savored.”

Los Angeles Times

Ben Marcus has received numerous awards for his groundbreaking fiction, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes. In The Flame Alphabet, 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.