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The Book of Speculation: A Novel
By Erika Swyler
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By Erika Swyler
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One of BuzzFeed's Best Fiction Books of the Year
**Includes a bonus short story, "The Mermaid Girl"**
In the tradition of Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, The Book of Speculation--with two-color illustrations by the author--is Erika Swyler's moving debut novel about the power of books, family, and magic.
Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His...
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