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rips along at such a pace that you'll barely notice. Eleanor Catton's Booker Prize-winning novel has been on my To Read list for years, but only when I was quarantined with omicron did I finally take the plunge. Before I knew it, I was worried the whole thing was about to end. A parody of a 19-Century novel ,is part mystery, part adventure, part ghost story, and all fun.
The night of his arrival, Moody meets a rogue's gallery of frontier characters, who tell him a tale of a strange disappearance and a mysterious death. Outward from there, Catton spins a web that entangles them all in an increasingly complicated—and delightful—puzzle. Throughout, while grappling with the period's beliefs about justice, fairness, power, and the occult, she manages to illuminate our own.
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