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A ravishing first novel occur vivid, tumultuous turn-of-the-century New York City, where the lives of four outsiders become entwined, providing irrevocable change to all of them. NY, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a nights soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement homes, finds an left behind newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, motivated to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry in the Church of Marvels, their mother's magnificent Coney Island sideshow. But the Church has burnt to the ground, their mother deceased in its ashes. Now Belle, the family's legend, has vanished in to the bowels of Manhattan, leaving Odile by themselves and desperate to find her. A young woman named Alphie awakens to find herself trapped across the river in Blackwell's Lunatic Asylum - sure that her imprisonment is a ruse by her husband's vile, overbearing mom. Over the ward she complies with another young girl of ethereal beauty would you not speak, a woman with a fantastic talent that might save them both. As these strangers' lives become ever more connected, their experiences and secrets unfold. Moving from the Coney Island seashore to the tenement-studded pavements of the low East Side, a spectacular human circus to a brutal, terrifying asylum, Church of Marvels takes readers back again to turn-of-the-century NY - a city of hardship and dreams, love and loneliness, desire and risk. In magnetic, luminous prose, Leslie Parry offers a richly atmospheric eye-sight of days gone by in a narrative of astonishing beauty, filled with wondrous enchantments, a marvelous debut that will leave visitors breathless.
