The Fever

Categories: Literature & Fiction

In a small town, a teenage girl named Lise collapses in class with a terrifying seizure. Soon her friends and classmates begin falling ill with mysterious symptoms. Panic spreads through the school and the community as parents look for causes, from a vaccine to a polluted lake. At the center are high school student Deenie Nash, her brother and their teacher father. Megan Abbott's novel is a tense story of adolescence, friendship, secrets and mass hysteria.

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