Brood X

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What if you could go back to that perfect summer when you were seventeen? Andy Gardner wishes he could: his entire life has become a disappointment. Then Brood X hatches, coveringmuch of the country with screaming cicadas - and with their arrival comes his neighbor and fellow-divorcee Scarlett.Dan Stockman's character-driven debut novel is about coming to grips with lost love, told through Andy's journey to find something bigger than the summer love of his youth. And in the middle of his story is the cicada, the near-miraculous insect that waits underground seventeen years for a few, fleeting moments of freedom and light.