The book does end on kind of a letdown though. Those people watching the series will find past the first chapter that things are completely different. Frankly, the chapters feel more like little stand-alone novellas with a single underwriting thread of the threat of a powerful family of natural philosophers and their quest for, well that is never really spelled out as the book is told from Atticus, his family, and friends. It is, in that it uses some of the same horrific elements used in (a very few of) Lovecraft's stories it is not, in that (a) it does not use Lovecraft's primary material, and particularly not the Cthulhu 'mythos' and (b) it plays havoc with Lovecraft's inherent racism by telling its stories from the point of view of a pair of African. Though oftentimes the Lovecraft angle pops up its head every once in a while. This book interestingly both is and is not Lovecraftian. This book is a combination of Freemasonry, Jim Crow in the 1950s, and H.P Lovecraft. Determined to find him and possibly have a chance of gaining redemption Atticus and his uncle George, set off to find him. Atticus gets a letter that his father has gone missing in a strange place not far from Boston. As I have seen the first couple of episodes of the series I can say so far that the book and series are completely different. Now an original series on HBO, this book is getting the reprinting treatment, so that readers have another chance to get the book while the series is in its early run. Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Freeman as he joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in.
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