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Author: Somnath Bhattacharjee
Publisher: Somnath Bhattacharjee
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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When online friendship turns into a long distance relationship between painter Alex and bookworm Scarlet, late night conversations becomes a daily matter and blaming time every times becomes a habit the God thinks for give a little twist to the relationship of London’s Alex and Berlin’s Scarlet. Scarlet’s dad had to shift in London because of his business with his whole family and Scarlet was over the moon about. Scarlet rushed to tell it to Alex but, before that Scarlet thinks for knowing Alex’s house’s location and innocent Alex shares his house’s location while thinking that, Scarlet is just asking for fun. Scarlet was astonished with surprise and shock that Chris’s house will be Scarlet’s neighbour house in London! Scarlet decides to give Alex a surprise and not to tell anything about it to Alex yet and Scarlet stays silent about it, till one day Scarlet gets in London. Alex was living his daily normal London life till the day when Alex heard truck’s sounds from the neighbourhood and Alex wonders that which new neighbours are coming and how they will be. Scarlet surprised Alex by her sudden appearance and they share a perfect hug and their first kiss in the eve of New Year to be their first Love Year. Days pass by and Alex and Scarlet gets more close to each other and both souls became more attached to each other. One day when Scarlet was reading her favourite books from the 1900s and 1800s era, she finds out about a mystery which was pretty triggering to her. Scarlet notices a same pattern in the romantic books of some authors who belonged from a same village and the authors used the same line to compare their written love story with the ‘Holy Love of Mary and Austin’ Now who are Mary and Austin? Thoughts started to come in Scarlet’s mind and she started to researched about it in the internet and there she found out about a tomb made in 1600s to 1700s for remembering the love sacrifice of Marry and Austin. Scarlet gets to know that there’s a village where the tomb is and the village exists in real and the distance is only 20 minutes in car from Scarlet’s house and Scarlet decided to see the tomb of Love and Sacrifice. Scarlet tells it to Alex and Alex also agrees but, Scarlet’s mom comes in middle and destroys their plan by telling that Scarlet and Alex’s family both are going to Paris next week together for vacation! In Paris, Alex and Scarlet gets a surprise by seeing the beauty of Eifel Tower and other Parisian places. There when Alex was resting on his bed with the excitement to go to the castle museum in the evening, Scarlet comes in and started to have fun with Alex. Soon their having fun turns into a beautiful romance with kisses and cuddling and Alex in main time thinks about taking the romance in next level by taking clothes off. Alex takes off his t shirt while Scarlet is sitting on Alex and they are having their best moments in their life and Alex tells Scarlet to undress too but, Scarlet smiles and says nothing and then both started to kissing but- “Room...Service...” The room service lady muttered and being witnessed of instance hotel romance in front of her eyes. Alex and Scarlet both gets red with embarrassment while trying to figure out what to do next. Days passes and Scarlet and Alex both comes back in London but the burning desire of finding the mystery about the love story of Mary and Austin stays the same. When Scarlet and Alex studies more about the love story they find out about so many things more but suddenly- The electricity goes off and the whole room gets filled into darkness and Scarlet gets fear of darkness and right at this time for making Scarlet more sacred Alex says loudly, “Look there is a cockroach near your leg!!! And they are climbing up!!!” Scarlet Jumps on Alex while screaming with fear and suddenly trouble in paradise! Alex’s mom came inside the room for give candles to Alex and Scarlet and again Alex forgot to lock the door and became red with embarrassment while trying to find a word how to describe the current situation while Scarlet is hanging by Alex because of the fear of cockroaches. Days pass more and more cute and embarrassing moments like it happens with our lovers and one day they found out a diary which was written in 1700s by a Austrian traveller who came to Great Britain’s love place and got to know about the Love of Mary and Austin. Alex and Scarlet decides to go in the place and read the diary near the tomb of Mary and Austin. The next day Alex and Scarlet goes there and sat on a bench together and starts to read the diary and they got to know about Mary and Austin’s love story, the love story of 1500s-1600s Great Britain which was sacrificed due to different religions and more hardships. Tears comes out of Scarlet’s eyes while reading about the condition of Austin and Mary but, suddenly in middle of everything Alex notices a beautiful lady wearing white dress is standing near Austin’s tomb and white pigeons are around her and the moon has started to rise. “Who are you?” Alex and Scarlet goes closer to the lady and asked her. “Do you want to know?” The lady asked them back. “Yes” Alex and Scarlet says in unison while being confused. The lady gives her hands towards Alex and Scarlet and Alex and Scarlet touches the lady’s hand and suddenly they both lost their consciousness. Scarlet and Alex started to see everything by their eyes this time, which they were reading in the diary. The Great Britain of 1500s and 1600s, the people, Mary and Austin, Knight David, King and Queen everything! Scarlet and Alex were astonished with seeing that this is all happening in front of their eyes as they are watching a forbidden love story in front of their eyes, which was forbidden because of the social norms of that era and the religious rules. The historical love story was touching Scarlet and Alex’s heart as they were knowing more about it and more but suddenly Alex recognised that Mary is the same lady who told Scarlet and Alex to hold her hands and so is that means? Scarlet and Alex met with Mary’s spirit who wanted to show them how the societal norms has forbidden their relationship? ‘Love in Second Language’ is not only a single love story but a mix of two love stories, first one is today’s modern love story and another one is historical forbidden love story of Mary and Austin. Drive into a world while witnessing the hot and cold and how they were connected to each other in the conspiracy of time and life. Want to know what will happen next? Don’t waste your time, looking for other books with shirtless male heroes in the cover! Read, ‘Love in Second Language’ by Somnath Bhattacharjee and gets into an exciting world, made with unexpected surprises, cute romantic moments, and historical love.
Author: Somnath Bhattacharjee
Publisher: Somnath Bhattacharjee
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Book Description
When online friendship turns into a long distance relationship between painter Alex and bookworm Scarlet, late night conversations becomes a daily matter and blaming time every times becomes a habit the God thinks for give a little twist to the relationship of London’s Alex and Berlin’s Scarlet. Scarlet’s dad had to shift in London because of his business with his whole family and Scarlet was over the moon about. Scarlet rushed to tell it to Alex but, before that Scarlet thinks for knowing Alex’s house’s location and innocent Alex shares his house’s location while thinking that, Scarlet is just asking for fun. Scarlet was astonished with surprise and shock that Chris’s house will be Scarlet’s neighbour house in London! Scarlet decides to give Alex a surprise and not to tell anything about it to Alex yet and Scarlet stays silent about it, till one day Scarlet gets in London. Alex was living his daily normal London life till the day when Alex heard truck’s sounds from the neighbourhood and Alex wonders that which new neighbours are coming and how they will be. Scarlet surprised Alex by her sudden appearance and they share a perfect hug and their first kiss in the eve of New Year to be their first Love Year. Days pass by and Alex and Scarlet gets more close to each other and both souls became more attached to each other. One day when Scarlet was reading her favourite books from the 1900s and 1800s era, she finds out about a mystery which was pretty triggering to her. Scarlet notices a same pattern in the romantic books of some authors who belonged from a same village and the authors used the same line to compare their written love story with the ‘Holy Love of Mary and Austin’ Now who are Mary and Austin? Thoughts started to come in Scarlet’s mind and she started to researched about it in the internet and there she found out about a tomb made in 1600s to 1700s for remembering the love sacrifice of Marry and Austin. Scarlet gets to know that there’s a village where the tomb is and the village exists in real and the distance is only 20 minutes in car from Scarlet’s house and Scarlet decided to see the tomb of Love and Sacrifice. Scarlet tells it to Alex and Alex also agrees but, Scarlet’s mom comes in middle and destroys their plan by telling that Scarlet and Alex’s family both are going to Paris next week together for vacation! In Paris, Alex and Scarlet gets a surprise by seeing the beauty of Eifel Tower and other Parisian places. There when Alex was resting on his bed with the excitement to go to the castle museum in the evening, Scarlet comes in and started to have fun with Alex. Soon their having fun turns into a beautiful romance with kisses and cuddling and Alex in main time thinks about taking the romance in next level by taking clothes off. Alex takes off his t shirt while Scarlet is sitting on Alex and they are having their best moments in their life and Alex tells Scarlet to undress too but, Scarlet smiles and says nothing and then both started to kissing but- “Room...Service...” The room service lady muttered and being witnessed of instance hotel romance in front of her eyes. Alex and Scarlet both gets red with embarrassment while trying to figure out what to do next. Days passes and Scarlet and Alex both comes back in London but the burning desire of finding the mystery about the love story of Mary and Austin stays the same. When Scarlet and Alex studies more about the love story they find out about so many things more but suddenly- The electricity goes off and the whole room gets filled into darkness and Scarlet gets fear of darkness and right at this time for making Scarlet more sacred Alex says loudly, “Look there is a cockroach near your leg!!! And they are climbing up!!!” Scarlet Jumps on Alex while screaming with fear and suddenly trouble in paradise! Alex’s mom came inside the room for give candles to Alex and Scarlet and again Alex forgot to lock the door and became red with embarrassment while trying to find a word how to describe the current situation while Scarlet is hanging by Alex because of the fear of cockroaches. Days pass more and more cute and embarrassing moments like it happens with our lovers and one day they found out a diary which was written in 1700s by a Austrian traveller who came to Great Britain’s love place and got to know about the Love of Mary and Austin. Alex and Scarlet decides to go in the place and read the diary near the tomb of Mary and Austin. The next day Alex and Scarlet goes there and sat on a bench together and starts to read the diary and they got to know about Mary and Austin’s love story, the love story of 1500s-1600s Great Britain which was sacrificed due to different religions and more hardships. Tears comes out of Scarlet’s eyes while reading about the condition of Austin and Mary but, suddenly in middle of everything Alex notices a beautiful lady wearing white dress is standing near Austin’s tomb and white pigeons are around her and the moon has started to rise. “Who are you?” Alex and Scarlet goes closer to the lady and asked her. “Do you want to know?” The lady asked them back. “Yes” Alex and Scarlet says in unison while being confused. The lady gives her hands towards Alex and Scarlet and Alex and Scarlet touches the lady’s hand and suddenly they both lost their consciousness. Scarlet and Alex started to see everything by their eyes this time, which they were reading in the diary. The Great Britain of 1500s and 1600s, the people, Mary and Austin, Knight David, King and Queen everything! Scarlet and Alex were astonished with seeing that this is all happening in front of their eyes as they are watching a forbidden love story in front of their eyes, which was forbidden because of the social norms of that era and the religious rules. The historical love story was touching Scarlet and Alex’s heart as they were knowing more about it and more but suddenly Alex recognised that Mary is the same lady who told Scarlet and Alex to hold her hands and so is that means? Scarlet and Alex met with Mary’s spirit who wanted to show them how the societal norms has forbidden their relationship? ‘Love in Second Language’ is not only a single love story but a mix of two love stories, first one is today’s modern love story and another one is historical forbidden love story of Mary and Austin. Drive into a world while witnessing the hot and cold and how they were connected to each other in the conspiracy of time and life. Want to know what will happen next? Don’t waste your time, looking for other books with shirtless male heroes in the cover! Read, ‘Love in Second Language’ by Somnath Bhattacharjee and gets into an exciting world, made with unexpected surprises, cute romantic moments, and historical love.
Author: Lauren Collins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014311073X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier—a surprising turn of events for someone who didn’t have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone in a second language? Collins wonders, as her relationship with Olivier continues to grow entirely in English. Are there things she doesn’t understand about Olivier, having never spoken to him in his native tongue? Does “I love you” even mean the same thing as “je t’aime”? When the couple, newly married, relocates to Francophone Geneva, Collins—fearful of one day becoming "a Borat of a mother" who doesn’t understand her own kids—decides to answer her questions for herself by learning French. When in French is a laugh-out-loud funny and surprising memoir about the lengths we go to for love, as well as an exploration across culture and history into how we learn languages—and what they say about who we are. Collins grapples with the complexities of the French language, enduring excruciating role-playing games with her classmates at a Swiss language school and accidently telling her mother-in-law that she’s given birth to a coffee machine. In learning French, Collins must wrestle with the very nature of French identity and society—which, it turns out, is a far cry from life back home in North Carolina. Plumbing the mysterious depths of humanity’s many forms of language, Collins describes with great style and wicked humor the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of learning—and living in—French.
Author: Jo Walton
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466800798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know-what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963, and she remembers Kennedy in 1964, declining to run again after the nuclear exchange that took out Miami and Kiev. Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the Second World War-those were solid things. But after that, did she marry Mark or not? Did her friends all call her Trish, or Pat? Had she been a housewife who escaped a terrible marriage after her children were grown, or a successful travel writer with homes in Britain and Italy? And the moon outside her window: does it host a benign research station, or a command post bristling with nuclear missiles? Two lives, two worlds, two versions of modern history; each with their loves and losses, their sorrows and triumphs. Jo Walton's My Real Children is the tale of both of Patricia Cowan's lives...and of how every life means the entire world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Jamie Ford
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345512502
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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"Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices."-- Kirkus Reviews “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war--not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. Especially relevant in today's world, this is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more importantly, it will make you feel." -- Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain “Jamie Ford's first novel explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle area during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love. An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut.” -- Lisa See, bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol. This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when young Henry’s world is a jumble of confusion and excitement, and to his father, who is obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow up American. While “scholarshipping” at the exclusive Rainier Elementary, where the white kids ignore him, Henry meets Keiko Okabe, a young Japanese American student. Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids, Henry and Keiko forge a bond of friendship–and innocent love–that transcends the long-standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors. And after Keiko and her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps, she and Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end, and that their promise to each other will be kept. Forty years later, Henry Lee is certain that the parasol belonged to Keiko. In the hotel’s dark dusty basement he begins looking for signs of the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot begin to measure. Now a widower, Henry is still trying to find his voice–words that might explain the actions of his nationalistic father; words that might bridge the gap between him and his modern, Chinese American son; words that might help him confront the choices he made many years ago. Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart. BONUS: This edition contains a Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet discussion guide and an excerpt from Jamie Ford's Love and Other Consolation Prizes.
Author: Emily Hainsworth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471116166
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Camden Pike has been grief-stricken since his girlfriend, Viv, died. Viv was the last good thing in his life: helping him rebuild his identity after a career-ending football injury, picking up the pieces when his home life shattered, and healing his pain long after the meds wore off. And now, he'd give anything for one more glimpse of her. But when Cam makes a visit to the site of Viv's deadly car accident, he sees some kind of apparition. And it isn't Viv. The apparition's name is Nina, and she's not a ghost. She's a girl from a parallel world, and in this world, Viv is still alive. Cam can't believe his wildest dreams have come true. All he can focus on is getting his girlfriend back, no matter the cost. But things are different in this other world: Viv and Cam have both made very different choices, things between them have changed in unexpected ways, and Viv isn't the same girl he remembers. Nina is keeping some dangerous secrets, too, and the window between the worlds is shrinking every day. As Cam comes to terms with who this Viv has become and the part Nina played in his parallel story, he's forced to choose - stay with Viv or let her go - before the window closes between them once and for all.
Author: Nicole Krauss
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393342840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).
Author: Danielle Trussoni
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101189983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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A thrilling epic about an ancient clash reignited in our time--between a hidden society and heaven's darkest creatures There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. --Genesis 6:5 Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim. For the secrets these letters guard are desperately coveted by the once-powerful Nephilim, who aim to perpetuate war, subvert the good in humanity, and dominate mankind. Generations of angelologists have devoted their lives to stopping them, and their shared mission, which Evangeline has long been destined to join, reaches from her bucolic abbey on the Hudson to the apex of insular wealth in New York, to the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris and the mountains of Bulgaria. Rich in history, full of mesmerizing characters, and wondrously conceived, Angelology blends biblical lore, the myth of Orpheus and the Miltonic visions of Paradise Lost into a riveting tale of ordinary people engaged in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.
Author: Mia Sheridan
Publisher: Forever
ISBN: 1538727382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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From New York Times bestselling author of Archer’s Voice comes a second chance, childhood friends to lovers romance between a famous musician and the only woman he’s ever loved, perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Lucy Score. The moment eleven-year-old Jessica Creswell met Callen Hayes, she knew he was a broken prince. Her prince. They became each other's refuge, a safe and magical place far from their troubled lives. Until the day Callen kissed her—Jessica's first real, dreamy kiss—and then disappeared from her life without a word. Years later, everyone knows who Callen Hayes is. Famous composer. Infamous bad boy. What no one knows is that Callen's music is now locked deep inside, trapped behind his own inner demons. It's only when he withdraws to France to drink his way through the darkness that Callen stumbles into the one person who makes the music return. Jessica. His Jessie. And she still tastes of fresh, sweet innocence . . . even as she sets his blood on fire. But they don't belong in each other's worlds anymore. There are too many mistakes. Too many secrets. Too many lies. All they have is that instinctive longing, that need—and something that looks dangerously like love.
Author: Steven Pressfield
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553897713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steven Pressfield's The Profession. The author of the international bestsellers Gates of Fire and Tides of War delivers his most gripping and imaginative novel of the ancient world–a stunning epic of love and war that breathes life into the grand myth of the ferocious female warrior culture of the Amazons. Steven Pressfield has gained a passionate worldwide following for his magnificent novels of ancient Greece, Gates of Fire and Tides of War. In Last of the Amazons, Pressfield has surpassed himself, re-creating a vanished world in a brilliant novel that will delight his loyal readers and bring legions more to his singular and powerful restoration of the past. In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, King of Athens (an actual historical figure), set sail on a journey that brought him into the land of tal Kyrte, the “free people,” a nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks called “Amazons.” The Amazons, bound to each other as lovers as well as fighters, distrusted the Greeks, with their boastful talk of “civilization.” So when the great war queen Antiope fell in love with Theseus and fled with the Greeks, the mighty Amazon nation rose up in rage. Last of the Amazons is not merely a masterful tale of war and revenge. Pressfield has created a cast of extraordinarily vivid characters, from the unforgettable Selene, whose surrender to the Greeks does nothing to tame her; to her lover, Damon, an Athenian warrior who grows to cherish the wild Amazon ways; to the narrator, Bones, a young girl from a noble family who was nursed by Selene from birth and secretly taught the Amazon way; to the great Theseus, the tragic king; and to Antiope, the noble queen who betrayed tal Kyrte for the love of Theseus. With astounding immediacy and extraordinary attention to military detail, Pressfield transports readers into the heat and terror of war. Equally impressive is his creation of the Amazon nation, its people, its rituals and myths, its greatness and savagery. Last of the Amazons is thrilling on every page, an epic tale of the clash between wildness and civilization, patriotism and love, man and woman.
Author: Katherine Dunn
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307794482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
