TICK BOOM

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A BIOGRAPHY of LYME DISEASE, the GROWING EPIDEMIC LURKING in PLAIN SIGHT

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A BIOGRAPHY of LYME DISEASE, the GROWING EPIDEMIC LURKING in PLAIN SIGHT

COMING APRIL 27, 2027

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COMING APRIL 27, 2027

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Journalist & Author

Amanda M. Fairbanks is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind. Her second book, Tick Boom: A Biography of Lyme Disease, the Growing Epidemic Lurking in Plain Sight will be published in April 2027.

Fairbanks writes about the East End of Long Island for the Metropolitan section of the New York Times, where she formerly worked in the editorial department. Her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Columbia Journalism Review, Air Mail, Oprah Daily, and the East Hampton Star.

A graduate of Smith College and a former Teach For America corps member, she holds two master's degrees from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. A California native, she lives with her family in Sag Harbor, New York.

THE LOST BOYS OF MONTAUK

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A True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanish at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind

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  • "This is a book eloquent with the sorrow and the beauty of being on this earth, and no less expressive of the love."

    — The Wall Street Journal

  • "This grippingly reported book is about social class and boundaries, about family, about the web of pain — grief, drugs, alcoholism, divorce, loneliness — that spins out of devastating loss."

    — Susan Scarf Merrell, author of Shirley

  • "You'll never again hear the words 'lost at sea' and not think of this book."

    — Steven Gaines, NYT bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow

  • "The Lost Boys of Montauk gives something of an idea of what Steinbeck and Melville might have produced had they written narrative nonfiction together."

    — Graydon Carter, editor of Air Mail

  • "A sweeping, and often devastating, portrait of a community on the brink of transformation, and of how grief can ricochet across generations."

    — Vanity Fair

  • "The Lost Boys of Montauk is an unforgettable portrait of fishermen's culture"

    — Nicholas Lemann, author of Transaction Man

  • An evocative, well-researched, and compelling account, this highly recommended book will stay with readers past the last page.

    — Library Journal (starred review)

  • "It's an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story."

    — Ron Suskind, NYT bestselling author of Life, Animated

  • "It's a complex tale of class divides in the Hamptons, of grief, of passion, of memory, of youth."

    J. Courtney Sullivan, NYT bestselling author of Friends and Strangers