Keir Graff
Autore di The Matchstick Castle
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: By Denverjeffrey - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4319194
Opere di Keir Graff
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1969
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Missoula, Montana, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 11
- Utenti
- 300
- Popolarità
- #78,268
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 32
- ISBN
- 47
- Lingue
- 2
This was at a little free library and sounded interesting even though I'm a bit older than the intended reader.
At its core, this book is about how people we lose are with us as long as we remember them--and the ways in which we can do so. It's also a reminder not to obsess about it.
Mal and Colm miss their father--and their mother has taken a new job and moved them to Chicago. Their mother's boss also misses his father. And this is where the fantasy/magic aspect of the story comes in: via a curse meant to punish the building's owner that also trapped others, including the father. One hour every day, a portal opens to this phantom world
Join Mal, Colm, and their new friend Tamika as they unravel the history of their apartment building and of the curse while attempting to understand why it exists.… (altro)