Parasites Like Us
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Parasites Like Us is a novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by American author Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson (writer)
Adam Johnson is an American novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Johnson was born in South Dakota and raised in Arizona...

. In the novel, anthropologist Dr. Hannah and his graduate students uncover a Clovis
Clovis culture
The Clovis culture is a prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture that first appears 11,500 RCYBP , at the end of the last glacial period, characterized by the manufacture of "Clovis points" and distinctive bone and ivory tools...

 burial site, only to usher in the end of civilization.

The book won a silver medal for fiction at the 2004 California Book Awards.
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