American elsewhere
2012 • 688 pages
Ratings16
Average rating4.1
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Ratings16
Average rating4.1
Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different ... From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew.
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While it's not perfect, I have to give it 5 stars for quickly igniting the Gaiman Theory of Great Stories: “... and then what happened?”
If you like weird fiction, definitely check this out. Its mysteries are often more mysterious to the characters than the savvy reader, but glimpsing where things were going didn't dull my enjoyment at all. In fact, it had me marveling, “If we know all this at 30% in, what's going to happen NEXT?”
I'm definitely going to check out more of Bennett's work after this. He created some amazing characters and a lot of engaging ideas. At its heart, this is an emotional story, despite sci-fi trappings and action sequences, and he absolutely nailed it.
Not usually my usual fare, but an interesting story, with shades of Stranger Things
