Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call

Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short) have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils: not only the blazing heat and raging tornadoes

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Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil Augustus McCrae and Woodrow CallFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Welcome to Inner Horner, a nation so small it can only accommodate one citizen at a time. The other six citizens must wait their turns in the Short Term Residency Zone of the surrounding country of Outer Horner. It's a long standing arrangement between the