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  • Location: Chicago, USA

Spoonbenders

Spoonbenders

Why a Booktrail?

1970s, 1990s: You think your family is dysfunctional?

  • ISBN: 978-1786482754
  • Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi, Humour

What you need to know before your trail

The Telemachus Family achieved widespread fame for their magic and mind reading act in the mid-1970s. That is, until the magic decided to disappear one night, live on national television.

Twenty years later, grandson Matty is born long and it’s not long before he discovers that  he himself has special powers and that his hugely deflated, heavily indebted family truly are amazing.

Spoonbenders is the legacy and legend of a dysfunctional, normal, entirely unique family across three generations of big personalities and socially inept recluses – each cursed with the potential of being something special.

Travel Guide

Chicago – 1950s

A journey not so much by location but by a blast to the past. It does take place in 1950s Chicago though and you will believe in the power of the Chicago cubs if nothing else by the end

The Chicago cubs taught me everything I needed to know about fate, faith and suffering
This is a journey to the past:
It was true that he was unusually nostalgic for a kid, though what he pined for was a time before he was born. He was haunted by the feeling that he’d missed the big show. The circus had packed up and left town, and he’d shown up to find nothing but a field of trampled grass. But other times, especially when Mom was feeling good, he’d be suddenly filled with confidence like the prince of a deposed royal family certain of his claim to the throne. He’d think, once we were Amazing.
“Nothing killed nostalgia for your childhood home like moving back into it”
“The thing about skeletons was, you never knew how much space they were taking up in the closet until you got rid of them.”

Booktrail Boarding Pass:  Spoonbenders

Destination: Chicago  Author/Guide: Daryl Gregory  Departure Time: 1970s, 1990s

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