American Elsewhere
Some places are too good to be true.Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead...
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Some places are too good to be true.Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different ...From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316200202 (0316200204)
Publish date: February 12th 2013
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 662
Edition language: English
Kept me interested enough to finish, which is why it gets three stars, but mostly I read it like an editor (as in persistently noting how it could be better), and I wonder if he had one. Ultimately the storytelling seemed sloppy and the story too outlandish, but given sufficient editing it could be ...
Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map, and in that little town are quiet streets lined with pretty houses that conceal the strangest things. Ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother’s home in Wink, New Mexico, and when she gets there, she finds that the peopl...
“Oh, propriety,” says Mrs Benjamin. “We’re always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.” This one feels like if the Fallout game series was written by someone whose idea of fun is to write urban Clthulu-esque horror/science fi...
SPOILERS AHEAD 23/10 - I've been reading this for seven days now, and it's continuing to baffle me - in a good way.The town of Wink, New Mexico seems to be inhabited by some type of either aliens or supernatural beings who are hiding as humans. Mona Bright comes along looking for information about h...
Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead m...
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