2 books by Erika Swyler
Requirements: Epub reader/Azw3 reader, 3.45 Mb
Overview: ERIKA SWYLER, a graduate of New York University, is a writer and playwright whose work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies. born and raised on Long Island’s North Shore, Erika learned to swim before she could walk and happily spent all her money at traveling carnivals. She is also a baker and photographer with a widely followed Tumblr, Cookie Dough & Regret: Baking and shame. Erika recently moved from Brooklyn back to her hometown, which inspired the setting for this story.
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery
The Book of Speculation
Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the edge of a cliff that is slowly crumbling into the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks.
One day, Simon receives a mysterious book from an antiquarian bookseller; it has been sent to him because it is inscribed with the name Verona Bonn, Simon’s grandmother. Simon must unlock the mysteries of the book, and decode his family history, before fate deals its next deadly hand.
The Book of Speculation is Erika Swyler’s gorgeous and moving debut, a wondrous novel about the power of books, family, and magic.
The Mermaid Girl
From Erika Swyler, author of The Book of Speculation—one of BuzzFeed’s Best Fiction Books of 2015– a short story of a mermaid who ran away from the circus, and what happened when she started a life on land.
Before she was a suburban wife and mother, Paulina Watson was the Mermaid Girl of Carnival Lareille. She traveled everywhere with two boxes: the first with red sequins for the dress she wore as a magician’s assistant, the second with green sequins for her mermaid tail. She’d grown up on wild stories told by wild circus people. Books, she hadn’t had books until she’d found Daniel Watson and stopped moving.
The first time Daniel saw her, Paulina was floating in a glass tank, suspended in water that sparkled like it was made from night sky. She has settled down now, living in a house on a cliff on Long Island Sound with Daniel and their young family: six-year-old Simon and his baby sister, Enola. But if you steal the magician’s assistant from a carnival, how can you know if she’ll disappear?
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