TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Sara
TI  - The scapegoat: a novel 
SN  - 9780374181451
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Fathers
KW  - Death
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Hallucinations and illusions
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Employees
KW  - Conspiracy
KW  - California
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N2  - "A literary mystery, following a man who works at a Northern Californian university as he investigates the death of his father"--; N is employed at a prestigious California university, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous, ordered life is violently disrupted by the death of his estranged father-- unanticipated and, as it increasingly seems to N, surrounded by murky circumstances. After a chance meeting with a young doctor, N begins to have vivid, almost hallucinatory daydreams about the year he spent in Ottawa, and a shameful episode from his past. As a shadowy group of fringe academics becomes preoccupied with a grim chapter in California's history, N's relations with his colleagues grow more and more hostile, and his ability to distinguish between delusion and reality begins to erode. Is he the author of his own investigation? Or is he the unwitting puppet of a larger conspiracy?
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