The narrative travels back and forth in time, immersing us in the day-to-day lives of the circus performers - and the modern woes of Simon’s precarious situation. Simon soon learns this mysterious volume, a logbook from a traveling circus of the 1700s, may hold the key to a centuries-old mystery involving the women in this family.
One day, a fragile, water-damaged book arrives in the mail. Soon, his father had also passed, and his younger sister had run away with a traveling carnival. That terrible event was the beginning of the end for his family. But on a fateful day, on the beach just below their house, she drowned. His much-adored mother was a circus mermaid who performed by holding her breath. Our hero is Simon, a librarian who lives alone in his family’s crumbling home on a bluff overlooking Long Island Sound. It includes, in no particular order, two librarians, a tarot card reader, a traveling circus, mermaids, dark secrets, a family curse, and an antiquarian book that plays a pivotal role in the action.
This book probably doesn’t need a hard sell.
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