{"product_id":"zero-zone-a-novel","title":"Zero Zone: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA literary thriller about an infamous desert art installation, the cult it inspired, and the search for a missing young woman that is “cinematic . . . readers will be compelled to start again at page one to discover how O’Connor pieces together his suspenseful, incredibly well–written narrative” (Library Journal, starred review).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLos Angeles, the late 1970s: Jess Shepard is an installation artist who creates environments that focus on light and space, often leading to intense sensory experiences for visitors to her work. A run of critically lauded projects peaks with Zero Zone, an installation at the once upon a time site of nuclear bomb testing in the New Mexico desert. But when a small group of travelers experience what they perceive as a religious awakening inside Zero Zone, they barricade themselves in the installation until authorities are forced to intervene. That violent showdown becomes a media sensation, and its aftermath follows Jess wherever she goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevastated by the attack and the distortion of her art, Jess retreats from the world. Unable to work, Jess unravels mentally and emotionally, plagued by a nagging uncertainty as to her culpability for what happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree years later, a survivor from Zero Zone comes looking for Jess, who must move past her self imposed isolation to face down her fears and recover her art and possibly her life from a violent cult intent of making it their own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51873433977138,"sku":"9781640094895","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/7146\/6034\/files\/9781640094895.jpg?v=1789830629","url":"https:\/\/www.fullmoonbookgarden.com\/products\/zero-zone-a-novel","provider":"Full Moon Book Garden","version":"1.0","type":"link"}