A01=Meghan Tifft
absurd fiction
Author_Meghan Tifft
Category=FF
detective fiction
detective novel
dysfunctional parent-child story
eating pencil shavings
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female sleuth
gypsy community
gypsy narrative
local news
local news staff
Meghan Tifft
mother's mysterious death
mother’s mysterious death
pica
pica disorder
roma gypsy
romany
romany community
senile weatherman
stalked by father
The Long Fire
Tifft Meghan
uncontrollable eating
uncovered secrets
Product details
- ISBN 9781939419446
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2015
- Publisher: Unnamed Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Natalie is propelled through life by pica, a disorder that has her eating a wide variety of inedibles--from pencil shavings to foam peanuts to plastic doll parts. A lowly staff worker for the local news, she follows the inane demands of the station's senile weatherman and comes home to an empty apartment, unless of course her father uses the spare key. But Natalie's past stalks her at every turn. With her mother recently killed in a tragic house fire, and her runaway brother, Eliot, missing for years, Natalie and her father Boris only have each other. When a cryptic voicemail implicates her mother's Gypsy roots in her untimely death, Natalie begins to consider the demons that consumed her mother, and drove her brother away. With increasing suspicion, she traces her mother's mysterious family legacy back to the Gypsy neighborhood she left behind. As a wary Gypsy community tracks her every move, Natalie resolves to confront the dysfunctional and tragic figure at the heart of the mystery: the dead matriarch herself. Smart, elegiac writing, and a page-turning drive, make this a wonderful literary thriller with a hero as intriguing as the mystery.
