Acceptance: A Novel

It is winter in Area X the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years rebuffing expedition after expedition refusing to reveal its secrets As Area X expands the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed on itself in confusion Now one last desperate team crosses the border determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers theyve been seeking If they fail the outer world is in perilMeanwhile Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X--what initiated this unnatural upheaval Among the many who have tried who has gotten close to understanding Area X--and who may have been corrupted by itIn this last installment of Jeff VanderMeers Southern Reach trilogy the mysteries of Area X may be solved but their consequences and implications are no less profound--or terrifying.