Book description
"A deep, weird and uncanny tale" —Sheila Heti
"A book to devour"—Iain Reid
"Sinister good fun" —Lee Henderson
"Gripping and unassumingly smart" —Lauren Oyler
A journalist with a history of bending the facts uncovers a story about a medical breakthrough so astonishing it needs no embellishment--but behind the game-changing…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Creep as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love that the main character, journalist Whitney Chase, is not only an unreliable narrator but also unreliable herself. She confesses she has problems with the “creep.” She adds fake information and lies to get more eyeballs on her writing. I was totally engaged in watching Whitney make poor choices and try to wiggle out of her responsibilities and the consequences of her actions.
It’s like being a voyeur to the train wreck of her life. Yet Whitney is funny, hard-working, tough, and a champion of the vulnerable. She is such an incomplete, contradictory, and frustrating character that I was…
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