11/12/2023 0 Comments American elsewhere![]() ![]() The husband works on his back under the car for so long that he develops bedsores - all the while mindlessly attaching toasters and other useless things to the engine. In a chilling scene, a housewife’s high heels fill with blood as she stands for hours repetitively asking her husband, who is tinkering with the family car, if he wants lemonade. You should also look askance at the veneer of normalcy. Because in Wink, you most definitely should mistrust old ladies, whether covered in mud or not. ![]() Benjamin, other strange inhabitants and Wink’s forbidden zones, a somewhat wry Bennett line like “It is hard to mistrust an old lady covered in mud” seems less funny than sinister. Benjamin, the host shows her a “weird magic trick” with two mirrors that seems to create impossible duplicates of real objects.Īs the reader learns more about Mrs. At a luncheon thrown by the town’s court officer, the elderly Mrs. The hotel clerk Parson appears to be playing checkers against an invisible opponent and has an odd contraption in his basement. It doesn’t take long for Mona to realize Wink is no ordinary place. She also learns to her surprise that Alvarez might have worked at the nearby Coburn National Laboratory and Observatory - abandoned after a terrifying lightning storm in the late 1970s that changed Wink forever. The existence of the house, which belonged to her mother, Laura Alvarez, a long-ago suicide, makes Mona reevaluate everything she thought she knew about her past. When Latina ex-cop Mona Bright inherits a house in Wink after the death of her estranged father, she embarks on an exploration of the town. The exact nature of those lurking things, human and otherwise, is chronicled by Shirley Jackson Award winner Robert Jackson Bennett in his at times horrifying and yet strangely beautiful new novel “American Elsewhere.” The book remains ambiguous about whether we’re reading supernatural fiction, science fiction, or fantasy for a long time but then delivers mind-blowing answers. The town of Wink, N.M., doesn’t appear on any official map, the moon as seen from its streets has a pinkish hue, and very odd things lurk beneath the charm of its old-fashioned façade. ![]()
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