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From the writer of Big Fish comes this haunting, tender story that weaves a tragic secret, a mysterious ending up in the Devil, and a family of charming circus freaks recounting the extraordinary adventures of these friend Henry Walker, the Negro Magician.
In the center of a dusty Southern town, in the center of the twentieth century, magician Henry Walker entertains crowds at Jeremiah Musgrove’s Chinese Circus. Though not the world-famous illusionist he once was, Henry, with his dark skin and green eyes, continues to be something of the novelty to the patrons who pay a dime to see his show. Most of the patrons, anyway.
As the novel begins, one May night in 1954, Henry is confronted by three menacing white teens, and soon thereafter disappears. With his fate uncertain, his friends from the circus—Jenny the Ossified Girl, Rudy the Strong Man, and JJ the Barker—piece together what they know of Henry's mysterious and extraordinary life. The result is a spellbinding adventure that starts when ten-year-old Henry meets the devil, who gives him the art of magic and then steals the thing which means the most to him. As Henry’s friends recount the impressive adventures and incredible heartache that result from this childhood encounter, only 1 thing seems certain about Henry's life: nothing is as it appears.
Brimming with surprising twists and turns, and peopled with a literal circus of memorable characters, Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician is Daniel Wallace at his finest. Such as his beloved debut, Big Fish, Wallace once more conjures a wondrous tale with an emotional punch. That is a tale of love and loss, identity and illusion, fate and choice; a tale that will capture your heart and your imagination and not let go before very last page.
