Again

During one night Columbia, South Carolina a biostatistician goes missing, strangers fall in something like love, an economist wakes up in someone else's home, and the local television news station reports everything but the news. In stepwise fashion, Again regresses into their individual pasts and wanders toward their linked futures against a backdrop of authoritarianism and racial conflict, pandemics and protests, and otherworldly terrors that seem to happen over and over...Again, a work of literary horror, is the first novel in, The Midlands trilogy, a series exploring repetition, transgression, and reconciliation in a contemporary Southern city. At the intersections of art and academia, apostasy and faith, and therapy and medicine, The Midlands follows a community transitioning into the 2020s. Simultaneously inward-looking at South Carolinians' personal experiences and outward looking at South Carolina, the series is rendered with rich emotion and approachable intellectuality.