Why a Booktrail?
1970s, 1990s: You think your family is dysfunctional?
Spoonbenders
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.
Locations
Reset- America/USA - Illinois
- A: Chicago - The University of Chicago
- B: Chicago - The cubs playing field
- C: Chicago - FBI
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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