About this item
Highlights
- A young man is mystified by why he can't see an eclipse.
- Author(s): Marie Zhuikov
- 198 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
Description
About the Book
"A young man is mystified by why he can't see an eclipse. A scammer falls for a woman he is targeting. A nondescript gray house hides a secret from a curious woman walking her dog. A girl discovers a mummified Viking bog boy while on a birding tour. A college student gets trapped in a biosphere after hours. Hemingway's stolen early stories are found in New Jersey. Singing in the shower takes on a whole new meaning. And a librarian develops her own theories about the influence of trees. United by the power of appearances to deceive and captivate, Marie Zhuikov's tales glisten with the magic and menace of everyday lives"--Book Synopsis
A young man is mystified by why he can't see an eclipse. A scammer falls for a woman he is targeting. A nondescript gray house hides a secret from a curious woman walking her dog. A girl discovers a mummified Viking bog boy while on a birding tour. A college student gets trapped in a biosphere after hours. Hemingway's stolen early stories are found in New Jersey. Singing in the shower takes on a whole new meaning. And a librarian develops her own theories about the influence of trees. United by the power of appearances to deceive and captivate, Marie Zhuikov's tales glisten with the magic and menace of everyday lives.
Review Quotes
"Love, in its numerous forms romantic, parental, devotional, inspirational, and desperate has a lingering presence in Zhuikov's collection of tales."
-Booklist
"Each of the spine-tingling scenarios will delight and surprise, bringing you to unexpected frontiers-in a biodome, a graveyard, the husk of a living tree-all without ever straying far from the yearnings of the human heart. Reader, I defy you not to be curious."
-Carol Dunbar, author of The Net Beneath Us
"These stories, rich in emotional metaphors that play out in magical ways, remind us to tread carefully and to always pay attention."
-Sigurd Brown, author of The Girl in Duluth
"A gem of a collection. . . . Readers will get carried away-just like these memorable characters get carried away-into imaginative worlds full of mystery and wonder."
-Jim Ray Daniels, author of The Perp Walk
"Not all of Zhuikov's characters find peace and harmony, for the damned soul and the broken heart and the heart's longing are nothing to fool with. But the few who find love . . . enter paradise."
-Anthony Bukoski, author of The Blondes of Wisconsin
