The book of speculation: a novel
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"Dazzling... a] quirky, raucous, and bewitching family saga." --Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants
Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards for a traveling carnival.
One June day, an old book arrives on Simon's doorstep, sent by an antiquarian bookseller who purchased it on speculation. Fragile and water damaged, the book is a log from the owner of a traveling carnival in the 1700s, who reports strange and magical things, including the drowning death of a circus mermaid. Since then, generations of "mermaids" in Simon's family have drowned--always on July 24, which is only weeks away.
As his friend Alice looks on with alarm, Simon becomes increasingly worried about his sister. Could there be a curse on Simon's family? What does it have to do with the book, and can he get to the heart of the mystery in time to save Enola?
In the tradition of Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, The Book of Speculation is Erika Swyler's moving debut novel about the power of books, family, and magic.
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9781250054807
9781410482433
9781427267429
125005480
9781466857797
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9781466857797
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| Full title | book of speculation |
| Author | swyler erika |
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| Last Update | 2018-05-23 23:18:59PM |
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| auth_author2 | Fliakos, Ari., Kellgren, Katherine., Pittu, David. |
| author | Swyler, Erika. |
| author2-role | Fliakos, Ari., Kellgren, Katherine., Pittu, David. |
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| display_description | "Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home--a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards, and seldom calls. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious package from an antiquarian bookseller. The book tells the story of Amos and Evangeline, doomed lovers who lived and worked in a traveling circus more than two hundred years ago. The paper crackles with age as Simon turns the yellowed pages filled with notes, sketches, and whimsical flourishes; and his best friend and fellow librarian, Alice, looks on in increasing alarm. Why does his grandmother's name, Verona Bonn, appear in this book? Why do so many women in his family drown on July 24? Could there possibly be some kind of curse on his family--and could Enola, who has suddenly turned up at home for the first time in six years, risk the same fate in just a few weeks? In order to save her--and perhaps himself--Simon must try urgently to decode his family history while moving on from the past. The Book of Speculation is Erika Swyler's gorgeous and moving debut, a wondrous novel about the power of books and family and magic"-- |
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| title_display | The book of speculation : a novel |
| title_full | The Book of Speculation A Novel, The Book of Speculation [sound recording] : a novel / Erika Swyler, The book of speculation : a novel / Erika Swyler, with illustrations by the author, The book of speculation [text (large print)] / Erika Swyler with Illustrations by the author |
| title_short | The book of speculation : |
| title_sub | a novel |
| topic_facet | Audiobooks, Books and reading, Family secrets, Fantasy, Fiction, Large type books, Librarians, Literature |
