![]() I received an advanced review copy of this book from Celadon Books. I will definitely be recommending this one to others and look forward to reading more of this author’s work. I thought that the story was well written and I liked the dystopian setting. Vera was a great character and I really wanted to see good things happen in her life. The story covers a lot of years and I enjoyed seeing Vera change and grow over the years. The story took a few turns that I did not expect which is always a plus. Vera’s own mother disappeared when she was a child and she fears that it will happen to her as she becomes a mother. Did they love their children too much? not enough? After they are gone, the townspeople gather up all of their belongings to be passed on to other community members, and all of their photos will be burned leaving no sign of them after they are gone. This doesn’t happen to all the mothers and nobody knows why it happens at all. The greatest spy novel ever written Why is everyone crazy about Aperol Most Read. In the town that Vera has always lived in many of the mothers have a mysterious affliction in which they disappear. 14 hours ago &0183 &32 Elsewhere on the BBC. Vera was a great character and I enjoyed seeing her experiences as she navigated life in her community. I was very curious about what might be causing the disappearances of the mothers in this strange little town. I thought that this book was really well done! It is a shorter book at 240 pages but I felt that it told a big story. Provocative and hypnotic, Alexis Schaitkin’s Elsewhere is at once a spellbinding revelation and a rumination on the mysterious task of motherhood and all the ways in which a woman can lose herself to it the self-monitoring and judgment, the doubts and unknowns, and the legacy she leaves behind. When motherhood comes for Vera, she is faced with the question: will she be able to stay and mother her beloved child, or will she disappear? Reveling in their gossip, they witness each other in motherhood, waiting for signs: this one devotes herself to her child too much, this one not enough-that must surely draw the affliction’s gaze. As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate. Vera, a young girl when her own mother went, is on the cusp of adulthood herself. It is the exquisite pain and intrinsic beauty of their lives it sets them apart from people elsewhere and gives them meaning. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving in its adherence to tradition, faces a singular affliction: some mothers vanish, disappearing into the clouds. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Published by Celadon Books on June 28, 2022 This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. “This is a genre-busting work that happily will appeal to readers who enjoy thrillers, horror, sci-fi or just a flat-out well-told story with a breakneck pace that never lets up.I received this book for free from the Publisher. He’s more concerned with the human condition that remains the same across time and space and that cannot be remedied by ideology.” “Some authors have used the sci-fi genre to create other worlds and critique the current world politics or realities. ![]() It makes you wonder what traveling to other worlds might truly be like.” ![]() His imagination has no limits and with each book he seems to top himself. “Dean Koontz is the master of this kind of story. “A terrifying new tale…A fast-paced, hold-your-breath thriller with a heart.” “Colorful, imaginative…a lively, offbeat novel.” “ spectacular, action-packed, character-driven adventure…Koontz remains white hot with another certain bestseller.” Unless Amity and Jeffy can outwit him, the place they call home may never be safe again. A man with a dark purpose is in pursuit, determined to use its grand potential for profound evil. Jeffy and Amity aren’t the only ones interested in the device. And Jeffy and Amity can’t help but wonder, could Michelle be just a click away? The device allows them to jump between parallel planes at once familiar and bizarre, wondrous and terrifying. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep.Įd entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object-something he calls “the key to everything”-and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. ![]() Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach.
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