TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mosley,Walter
TI  - Touched: a novel 
SN  - 9780802161840
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atlantic Monthly Press
KW  - Families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Humanity
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Dystopian fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Alternative histories (Fiction)
KW  - Novels
N2  - "Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil."--; Martin, his wife, and his two children are the only Black family on their neighborhood block in the Hollywood hills of Los Angeles. Suddenly, Martin is both father and Antibody, husband and Cure, occasionally slipping into an alternate consciousness - equipped with unprecedented physical strength - to violently defend them. The family is stalked by Tor Waxman - the pale, white-haired embodiment of death who wears a dapper suit, carries a cane, and seeks to destroy all life with his fatal touch. Martin must convince his family of the danger and get them to engage with him in a battle beyond all imagining
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