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REVIEW: cicadas is a jam-packed eco-thriller experiment with a dual personality

iPhoto caption: Monica Dottor and Ellora Patnaik in “cicadas.” Photo by Jae Yang. To ensure their survival as a species, periodical cicadas (as opposed to annual cicadas) use a strategy known as predator sedation. It involves spending most of their lives underground as nymphs and only surfacing to lay eggs every 13 or 17 years. In this way, a large wave of periodical cicadas greatly reduces the likelihood of aligning with that of their predators, who are typically born in two-, three-, four-, and five-year cycles.David Yee references this biological adaptation in his new eco-thriller cicadas, and…

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