{"product_id":"book-e4x5","title":"Zero Zone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\" (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e\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":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49371797094704,"sku":"BDe4x5","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [10]","offer_id":49371797127472,"sku":"10e4x5","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/e4x5-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773843071","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-e4x5","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}