Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

There are a few errors to clean up on the book Beings.

1. All Editions: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

- The Original Publication Date is missing. It should be September 23, 2025.

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2. Hardcover: Beings (ISBN 9781639737000)

- The page count is incorrect. I’m holding a copy and it stops at 291.

- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the jacket:

ON THE PAGE, LOVE LETTERS COLLAPSE TIME AND SPACE. IN THE SKIES, SOMETHING IS WATCHING.

In 1961, a married couple were driving the dark mountain roads of New Hampshire when they noticed the lights of a mysterious aircraft in the night sky. The wife urged her husband to acknowledge it, but he brushed her off—until the craft descended, and, through his binoculars, he saw the impossible.

Elsewhere, a budding science fiction writer, Phyllis, penned diaristic letters to her lost love, finding solace and courage in the stories she wrote. She struggled with loneliness and desire in the repressive 1960s, until another lesbian introduced her to Boston’s revelatory gay underground.

In the present day, an unnamed Archivist studies Phyllis’s letters and the married couple’s testimony while excavating lost childhood memories of their own. Obsessed with the borders between fact and fiction, the Archivist discovers strange links between their research and their own life. Could it all be connected to something larger—something alien?

Inspired by the real and highly publicized account of Betty and Barney Hill, Masad explores the trauma the pair might have faced and how they may have grappled with the aftermath as they tried to maintain control of their narrative. The stories of the abductees, Phyllis, and the Archivist make human what is alien and make tangible what is hidden-sometimes by chance and sometimes intentionally—from the annals of history. Masad shows, in blazing prose, how little separates our reality from that of any being whose story crosses paths with our own.

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3. Audible: Beings: A Novel (ASIN B0FPRKDHJF)

- “A Novel” should be removed from the title.

- The page count is missing. It should be 11.

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4. PDF Ebook: Beings (ISBN 9781639737024)

- The publication date is incorrect. It should be September 23, 2025.

Bumping.