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"Dear Mr. Watson, I ran across this booklet at auction within a larger lot I purchased on speculation. The harm renders it useless if you ask me, but a name within it - Verona Bonn - led me to believe it might be of interest to you or your loved ones...." Simon Watson, a librarian on the verge of shedding his job, lives together on the Long Island Sound in his house - a house, perched on the border of your bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the ocean. His parents are long inactive, his mother having drowned in water his house overlooks. His more youthful sister, Enola, works for a touring carnival reading tarot credit cards and seldom calling. In overdue June Simon gets a mysterious program from an antiquarian bookseller. The booklet tells the storyline of Amos and Evangeline, doomed buffs who functioned in a touring circus more than 200 years ago. The paper crackles with age group as Simon converts the yellowed internet pages filled with notes, sketches, and whimsical flourishes. His best ally and fellow librarian, Alice, appears on in increasing security alarm. How come his grandmother's name, Verona Bonn, come in this booklet? Why achieve this task a lot of women in his family drown on July 24? Will there be a curse on his family - and may Enola, who may have suddenly resulted in at home for the first time in six years, risk the same fate in just a few weeks? To conserve her - and perhaps himself - Simon must try urgently to decode his family history while moving on from the past. The Publication of Speculation is Erika Swyler's stunning and moving debut, a wondrous book about the energy of catalogs and family and magic.
