# @deadinkbooks on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CVaGtZZA-Hg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19238508-deadinkbooks-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-10-24T10:23:38.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dead Ink Books (@deadinkbooks) — https://gondola.cc/deadinkbooks

## Caption

Published mid-lockdown, Tariq Shah’s Whiteout Conditions is a short brutal road trip through a snowstorm. 

Ant is back in Chicago for a funeral, and he typically enjoys funerals. Since most of his family has passed away, he finds himself strangely attracted to their endearing qualities: the hyperbolic language, the stoner altar boy, seeing friends in suits for the first time. That is, until the tragic death of Ray — Ant’s childhood friend, Vince’s teenage cousin. Ray was the younger third-wheel that Ant and Vince were stuck babysitting while in high school, and his sudden death makes national news.

In the depths of a brutal Midwest winter, Ant rides with Vince through the falling snow to Ray’s funeral, an event that has been accruing a sense of consequence. With a poet’s sensibility, Shah navigates the murky responsibilities of adulthood, grief, toxic masculinity, and the tragedy of revenge in this haunting Midwestern noir.

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