Malorie (novel)

Two years after arriving at a school for the blind, Malorie and her 2 young children, Olympia and Tom, are forced to venture out of the place again when mass chaos ensues after creatures manage to break in. She sees a blind woman named Annette, who was driven to madness by the creatures, and concludes that the creatures have evolved and can now spread madness through touch.

Twelve years after this, the novel finds Malorie, Olympia, and Tom living in an abandoned Jewish summer camp. Tom and Olympia are now teenagers who find themselves chafing under the multiple restrictions and expectations. Things take a major turn once Malorie learns of another community of survivors in another area far off, and that her parents may be among the shelter's occupants. Along the way, she also learns that there are people who claim to have experimented on the creatures that have decimated humanity and that they may pose an all-new threat to those who have survived.

Malerman began thinking about a sequel to Bird Box after viewing the Netflix adaptation, as his fiancée asked him what would happen to Malorie and stated that this was up to him to determine. The novel was officially announced in March 2019.^[2] He has described the writing process as "very fluid" while also stating that writing characters in a universe where they are unable to view their surrounding world posed a challenge.^[3] While writing the prior novel Malerman had to excise various portions of Bird Box and planned on adding them into Malorie, but ultimately decided against it.^[4]