{"product_id":"deprivation-9781946154217","title":"Deprivation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Roy Freirich\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Meerkat Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Meerkat Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Psychological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a mysterious, silent child is found abandoned on the beach clutching a handheld video game, residents and tourists alike find themselves utterly unable to sleep. Exhaustion impairs judgment, delusions become hysteria, and mob rule explodes into shocking violence. Told from three perspectives: Chief of Police Mays tries to keep order, teenaged tourist Cort and her friends compete in a dangerous social media contest for the most hours awake, while local physician and former Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Sam Carlson battles his guilt over a student's suicide and the blurriness of his own insomnia, to try to treat the sleepless--until he and the child must flee the violent mob that blames the child for the epidemic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meerkat Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45083243249815,"sku":"9781946154217","price":1607.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781946154217.webp?v=1767898205","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/deprivation-9781946154217","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}