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Alice Hoffman’s The Museum of Extraordinary Things (2014)

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Like Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, Alice Hoffman's novel begins from a place of belonging. Scribner - Simon & Schuster, 2014 Coralie is a professional mermaid in early twentieth-century Coney Island, who grows up with the Wolfman and various other characters who seem to step from the pages of

Alice Hoffman’s The Museum of Extraordinary Things (2014)Buried In Print2020-10-01T16:18:44-04:00

Samantha Hunt’s The Seas (2004)

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Samantha Hunt’s The Seas (2004) Picador, 2006 (Looking for a swallow rather than a full glass? ORANGE Squirt below.) Samantha Hunt’s debut begins: “The highway only goes south from here.” You might think that this will be a linear tale. But no, by the end of the first four pages,

Samantha Hunt’s The Seas (2004)Buried In Print2014-03-13T19:39:19-04:00