pbFrom the author of iBornei and iAnnihilationi comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic iShriek An Afterwordi.b pAn epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris--previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer's acclaimed iCity of Saints and Madmeni--iShriek An Afterwordi relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies. pNarrated with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions by the ex-society figure Janice Shriek, this afterword presents a vivid gallery of characters and events, emphasizing the adventures of Janice's brother Duncan, a historian obsessed with a doomed love affair and a secret that may kill or transform him a war between rival publishing houses that will change Ambergris forever and the gray caps, a marginalized people armed with advanced fungal technologies who have been waiting underground for thei