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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. I won a copy from LT's Early Reader program. Ty!-Back of the book categories: Fiction-Literary / Fiction-Magical Realism @15% I LOVE it. A chapter at a time we are introduced to who I believe are our 3 main characters. We meet them individually and I love the presentation of WHO they are to us. ------------ I’m finished now and I’m feeling like I’m probably not the right person for this book. I don’t have the ability to decipher the deeper meaning of the story. For me the story is almost like a “slice of life” story. We meet three unique individuals navigating their life. I was eagerly absorbing all that was shared about them. As the description tells you, their lives intersect at one point and then we get a glimpse of their lives after the intersection. If you like to puzzle out deeper meanings, to use the facts about sturgeon instincts interspersed throughout the story to help guide your understanding, then I would recommend. The description is accurate and tells the story in a nutshell but there has to be something more there. I hope the right kind of reader finds the story. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Three people in the same northern city of Duluth, Minnesota, are vanishing in different ways. Howard Wright finds his skin turning transparent, revealing the bloody workings of musculature beneath. His body becomes otherworldly and insistent, spinning him into visions that echo trauma from his childhood. Sarah Turnsfield is living under an assumed identity, on the run from her past as a meteoric scientific prodigy. Content to work as a grocery clerk, she is determined to live a life on her own terms, where the landscape of her mind is hers alone. Jo Breckmier seeks a new start in Duluth after a bitter divorce. She moves into the apartment unit across from Howard's, leaning on alcohol and a stubborn will to reinvent herself. The woods and the lake seem to call to her as she laments her shipwrecked life. When instinct, the swiftly warming spring, and Howard's monstrous body conspire to bring the three together, each will discover how long they can hide--Jo from her loneliness, Sarah from her rising paranoia, and Howard from his intensifying transformation. On one remarkable night along the rugged shore of Lake Superior, the lines between reality and legend intersect. Identities are broken and remade. In this contemporary monster story, the earth itself amplifies both the grotesque and the beautiful." --Amazon.com. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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"Three people in the same northern city of Duluth, Minnesota, are vanishing in different ways."
Howard and Sarah want to disappear; in contrast Jo is struggling to find her place in the world and inadvertently brings them together. I found the story to be a lovely meditation on loneliness, the ways it can hurt and comfort, and the healing power of nature. I loved the writing as well, which is so well-wrought and vivid, whether it was describing flower arrangements, shipwrecks, or the grotesque beauty of muscle and veins and blood. I held my hand up in front of my face at one point and tried to imagine what it would look like if my skin was transparent too.
LTER once again has introduced me to an amazing indie book I would've otherwise never heard of, thank you!
btw if you're like me and don't trust adult fiction when a cat or dog is introduced and end up worrying whether it's going to be killed in some horrible way for drama, don't worry. Nothing happens to Jo's cat Ike ( )