Erika Swyler
Författare till The Book of Speculation
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- Födelsedag
- 1975
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Bostadsorter
- Long Island, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- New York University
- Kort biografi
- Author of LIGHT FROM OTHER STARS, and the national bestseller THE BOOK OF SPECULATION. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Literary Hub, Catapult Story, VIDA, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She lives on Long Island, NY, where she writes, bakes, is a casual runner, and has strong feelings about typewriters.
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- Verk
- 3
- Även av
- 1
- Medlemmar
- 2,463
- Popularitet
- #10,405
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 154
- ISBN
- 35
- Språk
- 2
- Favoritmärkt
- 1
In the modern part of the story a librarian, his sister who reads the Tarot, a couple of neighbors and a carnival worker covered in octopus tentacle tattoos try to figure out how to put an end to a centuries long curse on a family of "mermaids". In the flashback part of the story we learn the origins of the curse back in the late 1700s. This is all very weird, of course, and I actually liked most of it but there were just too many things I wanted to know more about. We eventually learn the connections of the modern characters to the historical ones but only in a quick rushed sequence at the end and I wanted to understand much more about those relationships and how they got to where they were. I wanted to know more about the very beginning and who/what exactly was Evangeline's (the original mermaid) father. And why all the weirdness with the horseshoe crabs?
I think I just needed a few more chapters in the past and present to tie things into a neater bow for me.
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