A Thousand Natural Shocks
by Omar Hussain
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Pub Date May 06 2025 | Archive Date May 20 2025
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Description
Omar Hussain’s dazzling debut, A Thousand Natural Shocks, is a mesmerizing meditation on trauma, memory, and identity wrapped in a high-octane thriller.
Dash, a reporter in Monterey, California, is desperate to outrun his past. During the day, he investigates the reemergence of a long-dormant serial killer. At night, he has become entangled with a criminal cult that promises a pill to erase his traumatic memory.
But as Dash begins to lose his memories—and his sense of self—he discovers a dark secret about the cult, one that would horrify its members. And soon he finds himself in a race against time to evade the cult, unveil the killer, and reconcile his past before his own memories fade away ...
A Note From the Publisher
Omar Hussain is a writer from the San Francisco Bay Area currently living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He holds an MFA in creative writing from NYU. A Thousand Natural Shocks is his first novel.
Advance Praise
“Omar Hussain’s A Thousand Natural Shocks is the most fun reading experience I’ve had in years. It’s a Tarantino movie in book form. And that doesn’t mean it skimps on the ‘book’ part of the equation: it’s smart, lyrical, penetrating, and literary as hell. But it also comes with 8,000 volts of sizzle. You’ll want to read this before everyone else starts talking about it. Just prepare to have your hair singed.”
Darin Strauss, internationally bestselling author of Half a Life
Marketing Plan
- Author will hire an ourside PR firm to help promote
- Has Forbes column that he will use to the extent allowed to tease the book
- Plans on building his social media following through this year
- Open to making video/trailers to help promote the book.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9798212979139 |
| PRICE | $26.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 352 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 1540961
I liked this book a lot!! I thought it was such a unique and interesting concept. It did remind me of a black mirror type of show. I think it was written very well and had so much good writing and good plot in it. I enjoyed the twists and turns and just really enjoyed it!
Thank you to NetGalley, to the author, and to the publisher for this complimentary ARC in exchange for my honest review!!!
Jordan S, Media/Journalist
Dash Hassan wants out — out of his past, out of his pain, maybe even out of his own mind. In “A Thousand Natural Shocks” (Blackstone, $27.99), a genre-bending read by Omar Hussain, a haunted journalist fakes being stalked by a serial killer to save his job, only for the real killer to resurface.
As Dash spirals deeper into a memory-erasing cult and reality begins to fracture, the story becomes a surreal, propulsive dive into grief, identity and the allure of oblivion. Part noir, part existential trip, this is an incisive thriller that asks: If you could forget everything, would you? Should you?
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