Book: The Facades
Author: Eric Lundgren
Published: 2013 (Overlook Duckworth)
Pages: 215
There are two stories going on in this novel, one about an
unreliable narrator trying to find his opera singer wife who disappeared on him
and one about a town slowly going crazy through the buildings of its quirky
founding architect. They are supposed to tie into each other, but they don’t,
not nearly enough, so I’m left wondering exactly what was the point of all I
just read.
I’m keeping this book because the librarians band together
in an impromptu militant stand against the mayor who wants to tear down the
town library and because of the gradual reveal of the lady’s real disappearance
at the end, not because this book makes a whole lot of sense.
Bookshelf none the less.
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