Lamberson opened the discussion with a tongue-in-cheek question: “What do you (Brooks) have against Washington state that you can take our pretty mountain, blow it up, cause death and destruction and then send a horde of marauding, murderous sasquatches in, too?”īrooks, the son of comedian/director Mel Brooks, explained that his problem with the state is the same problem he has with North America as a whole: We’re too new to be safe.
Soon after the last residents move in, the group’s high-tech, utopian dream shatters when Mount Rainier erupts, cutting the community off from civilization.Īs animals start venturing out of the forest in search of food, evidence of a mysterious, humanoid predator with large feet emerges and the residents of Greenloop begin to wonder whether the volcano isn’t the only thing chasing them out. The story follows the city-raised residents of “Greenloop,” an eco-community settled near Mount Rainier.
New York Times bestselling author Max Brooks (“World War Z”) joined Carolyn Lamberson for a Northwest Passages Book Club livestream to discuss his new horror novel, “Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre” Thursday night.
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