Just started reading this modern fable. It’s vivid and unsettling and strangely realistic.
A puff of dust rose from her canvas fingers. The crowd cheered for her, and then she felt the push of her left foot as she took her first step. Working together, the puppets moved her arms and legs, and she was walking.
The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue
From the bestselling author of The Boy Who Drew Monsters and The Stolen Child comes a modern take on the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth—A Suspenseful tale of romance and enchantment
In the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside.
The next morning Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic at her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet, and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins the dual odyssey of Keith Donohue’s The Motion of Puppets: of a husband determined to find his wife, and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Picador (October 4, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1250057183
ISBN-13: 978-1250057181
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.9 x 9.3 inches
What a ‘different’ sounding book! Thanks for the review.
I did not want the 56 to end. I will watch for this one. Thanks for sharing.
That certainly sounds unsettling! Happy reading.
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I LOVE how it sounds. Flows nicely. Happy Sunday!
The Boy Who Drew Monsters was such a good book. I’d like to read this. And that’s a wicked cover!
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This sounds like an interesting story. I hope you are enjoying it. This week I am spotlighting Project Elfhome by Wen Spencer – a linked short story collection. Happy reading!
Sounds like a clever premise for a story. I like the Old Quebec setting.
My Friday post features CHESTNUT STREET by Maeve Binchy.
This sounds intriguing. I would keep reading. Enjoy!