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The Anthill

By: Julianne Pachico
Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez
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For listeners of The Vegetarian and Friday Black, The Anthill is an intoxicating literary ghost story about a young woman returning home to seek redemption.

Lina has come home to the country of her childhood. Sent away from Colombia to England after her mother's death 20 years before, she's searching for the one person who can tell her about their shared past. She's never forgotten Matty, her childhood friend and protector, who now runs The Anthill, a day-care refuge for the street kids of Medellín. Lina begins volunteering there, but her reunion with Matty is not what she hoped for. Medellín is entering a new era, and Matty appears to have taken the city's attempts to redefine itself post-conflict to heart. He has no interest in discussing the past, and his enigmatic behaviour puts Lina on guard. And then, strange happenings start taking place at The Anthill: violent scratches appear on the inside of the supply closet door, kids make disturbing crayon drawings and insist they've seen a small boy with pointy teeth roaming around the yard. Could Lina have brought these disturbances with her? Is this a vision of the boy she once knew, or something more sinister? And what will her search for atonement cost Matty?

A visceral, hallucinatory ride by an author who has been called 'blunt, fresh, and unsentimental' (The New York Times Book Review) and 'remarkably inventive' (The Atlantic), The Anthill is a searingly honest exploration the toxicity of unexamined privilege and what healing might look like - for both a person and a country - in the wake of horror.

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