“A novel that’s equal parts ‘White Lotus’ and ‘Get Out’”— New York Times From the award-winning author of We Ride Upon Sticks and When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East , a genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctica that explores abandonment, guilt, and survival in the shadow of America’s racial legacy Striker isn’t entirely sure she should be on this luxury Antarctic cruise. A Black film scout, her mission is to photograph potential locations for a big-budget movie about Ernest Shackleton’s doomed expedition. Along the way, she finds private if cautious amusement in the behavior of both the native wildlife and the group of wealthy, mostly white tourists who have chosen to spend Christmas on the Weddell Sea. But when a kayaking excursion goes horribly wrong, Striker and a group of survivors become stranded on a remote island along the Antarctic Peninsula, a desolate setting complete with boiling geothermal vents and vicious birds. Soon the hostile environment will show each survivor their true face, and as the polar ice thaws in the unseasonable warmth, the group’s secrets, prejudices, and inner demons will also emerge, including revelations from Striker’s past that could irrevocably shatter her world. With her signature lyricism and humor, Quan Barry offers neither comfort nor closure as she questions the limits of the human bonds that connect us to one another, affirming there are no such things as haunted places, only haunted people. Gripping, lucid, and imaginative, The Unveiling is an astonishing ghost story about the masks we wear and the truths we hide even from ourselves. Praise for The Unveiling: People‘s #1 Must-Read Book of Fall A Los Angeles Times Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025 A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Book of 2025 A Book Riot Fall 2025 Most Anticipated Book A Town & Country Best Book of Fall 2025 A Time Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025 A Women.com Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025 “A novel that’s equal parts ‘White Lotus’ and ‘Get Out’ . . . blends White’s penchant for delicious, violent satire of the uber-privileged and Peele’s skill at using humor, psychological collapse and flat-out horror to reveal racism afresh . . . The Unveiling is an ambitious work of literary horror marked by bold storytelling moves . . . it’s exhilarating to follow these terrified, terribly behaved characters as they try to survive with and against one another, while out there in the Antarctic dark, other presences lurk. Whether you reckon with it or avoid it, a supernatural present, like a traumatic past, will hunt and haunt you.”— Randy Boyagoda, New York Times “Gripping and terrifying.”— People, #1 Must-Read Book of Fall “Crystalline . . . A scary 'Gilligan's Island' in Antarctica.”— Ayesha Rascoe, NPR “Virtuosic . . . has a sharp, sophisticated point of view, and a double consciousness, toggling between her perceptions of her fellow travelers and their attitudes about people of color, and the inner self who is slowly emerging into her awareness . . . The Unveiling , with its icy twists and deep blue horrors, is a blend of wrought historic layers and contemporary anxieties.”— Jane Ciabattari, Literary Hub “In Quan Barry’s ominous, beautifully written psychological horror . . . [Striker is] perceptive and sharp-witted, funny even, but she’s carrying baggage along with her Leica camera . . . As the passengers battle demented seals, mad penguins and each other, Striker, like the iceberg, is fracturing. Is she in another dimension? Is she detoxing from clozapine? Or are the souls of past explorers haunting them? Maybe all of the above.”— Carole Barrowman, Minnesota Star Tribune “If you’re a seasonal reader and you’re in the mood for a genre-bender set at the end of the world, The Unveiling by the award-winning author of We Ride Upon Sticks just came out . . . Striker’s story turns into one of survival, and let’s just say that the true nature of the mostly wealthy and white tourists comes out.”— Book Riot, Best New Book Releases “Here's Striker, hero of Barry's latest novel, aboard one of these waterbound Hindenburgs on her way to Antarctica, with the idea of scouting film locations. Of course neither she nor her cruisemates should count on an uneventful ride right to their destination, in this peculiar skein of race, psychological horror and social satire.”— Colin Dwyer, NPR “Inventive intense and darkly funny until it’s deadly serious. Barry unflinchingly takes on race, gender, belonging and longing in this beautifully written, messy, disturbing . . . novel.”— Sarah Rachel Egelman, Bookreporter “Honestly all I needed to hear was 'Quan Barry' . . . Seasonally appropriate, in that it is creepy and weird and cold. Very cold . . . Yes. Yes please.”— Reactor Magazine “Blends delicious satire of the uber-privileged with humor, psychological collapse and flat-out horror to reveal racism afresh.”— New York Times , Editors' Choice “An unsettlin