Two days later, another customer returns another tape, and registers the same oddcomplaint: "There's another movie on this tape." "There's something on it," she says as she leaves the store, though she doesn't elaborate. But when a local school teacher comes in to return her copy of Targets-an old movie, starring Boris Karloff-the transaction jolts Jeremy out of his routine. The job is good enough for Jeremy, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a carwreck.
It's the late '90s, and you can find Jeremy Heldt at the VideoHut in Nevada, Iowa-a small town in the center of the state. "The most unsettling book I've read since House of Leaves." more sensitive than one would expect from a more traditional tale of dread." -Joe Hill, New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
beyond worthwhile it's a major work by an author who is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in American fiction." Darnielle is a master at building suspense, and his writing is propulsive and urgent it's nearly impossible to stop reading. "A moving, beautifully etched picture of America's lost and profoundly lonely." -Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature So begins Universal Harvester, the haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle, author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van. You have to be closer than you really want to get to see how it works.Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. But the rest of the details about it aren't observable from the outside. It's efficient, and flexible, and probably transferable from one person to another should they catch the scent on each other. The mechanism that allowed Lisa Sample to keep her head above water in the wak of her mother's departure has not been described or cataloged by scientists. It doesn't mean a child forgets the time she shared in the backyard with her mother gardening, or the fun they had together watching Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the Astro. That it doesn't break, or lose its ability to function. But resiliency only means that a thing retains its shape. In this sense – that they don't succumb to despair, that they don't demand a space for their pain – it's very true that children are resilient.
They look and act, most of the time, like any other children. It's true I've met children who've been through things that would drive most adults to the brink. “If you work with or around children, you often hear a lot about how resilient they are.
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