Mockingbird
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"Visceral and often brutal, this tale vibrates with emotional rawness that helps to paint a bleak, unrelenting picture of life on the edge." —Publishers Weekly
Miriam is trying. Really, she is. But this whole "settling down thing" just isn't working out.
She lives on Long Beach Island all year in a run-down, double-wide trailer. She works at a grocery store as a checkout girl. And her relationship with Louis—who's on the road half the time in his truck—is subject to the mood swings Miriam brings to everything she does. It just isn't going well.
Still, she's keeping her psychic ability—to see when and how someone is going to die just by touching them—in check. But even that feels wrong somehow. Like she's keeping a tornado stopped up in a tiny bottle. Then comes the one bad day that turns it all on her ear.
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Chuck Wendig. (2015). Mockingbird. S&S/Saga Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Chuck Wendig. 2015. Mockingbird. S&S/Saga Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Chuck Wendig, Mockingbird. S&S/Saga Press, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Chuck Wendig. Mockingbird. S&S/Saga Press, 2015.
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"Visceral and often brutal, this tale vibrates with emotional rawness that helps to paint a bleak, unrelenting picture of life on the edge." —Publishers Weekly
Miriam is trying. Really, she is. But this whole "settling down thing" just isn't working out.
She lives on Long Beach Island all year in a run-down, double-wide trailer. She works at a grocery store as a checkout girl. And her relationship with Louis—who's on the road half the time in his truck—is subject to the mood swings Miriam brings to everything she does. It just isn't going well.
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August 10, 2015
Wendig sends his potty-mouthed dysfunctional psychic heroine, Miriam Black, out on her scathing second adventure (after 2012’s Blackbirds), equipped with the eerie ability to see the death of anyone she touches, except her long-suffering lover, Louis. In a grungy corner of New Jersey, this unlikely pair, “cautious guardian” Louis and “frazzled lunatic” Miriam, plunge into a grisly school for bad girls that conceals a horrifying scheme of kidnapping, torture, and murder. Wendig takes mythic bits from Egyptian, Greek, and Norse avian legends, pads his creepy narrative with allusions to T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land, and loses no opportunity to attribute Miriam’s unusual insights and abilities to her adolescent angst, brought on by her religious-zealot mother and a wallop to the head with a red snow shovel wielded by the mother of the boy who got teenage Miriam pregnant. Not for the squeamish, this attempted exploration of primal fears loses much of its intended impact through injudicious overkill. Agent: Stacia Decker, Donald Maass Literary Agency.
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Wendig ups the ante in this second novel about a psychic girl pitted against dark forces, malevolent humans, and the twisty nature of fate. If readers were intrigued by the introduction of acid-tongued, supernaturally gifted Miriam Black in Wendig's last novel, this book will really sink its teeth into them. She's recovering after the traumatic events of Blackbirds (2015), holed up in an old Airstream trailer owned by the truck driver who saved her life. But she's getting itchy, and the visions she's having of a dark entity she calls "The Trespasser" aren't helping. Eventually she's introduced to Katey, an English teacher at an exclusive all-girls prep school. Katey thinks she's dying, and Miriam quickly confirms this truth. But when she accidentally bumps into young Lauren "Wren" Martin, a much darker vision occurs to Miriam. "Here's the poop, little bird," she says. "I have this power. Like a psychic power? Except not your everyday psychic hoodoo. I can't levitate shit, I wouldn't know palm reading from a pile of donkey guts, and tarot cards weird me out a little. But what I can do is touch a person and see how they're going to die. I saw how you're going to die. And I don't want that to happen." With each turn of the screw, the book pushes readers deeper into the dysfunction of a small town and ratchets up the horror, both paranormal and startlingly human. As before, Miriam isn't for everyone; she's extremely profane, her creator absolutely punishes her physically, and she's not exactly someone to root for. But it's apparent that Wendig is getting more skilled at his craft here, using better characterization and the same whiplash prose to carve out a story that is not only creepier and equally as propulsive, but is also pushing its heroine toward even worse events in future installments. Lurid but wildly entertaining urban horror that falls somewhere between Flowers in the Attic and Joe Hill.COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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"Visceral and often brutal, this tale vibrates with emotional rawness that helps to paint a bleak, unrelenting picture of life on the edge." —Publishers Weekly
Miriam is trying. Really, she is. But this whole "settling down thing" just isn't working out.
She lives on Long Beach Island all year in a run-down, double-wide trailer. She works at a grocery store as a checkout girl. And her relationship with Louis—who's on the road half the time in his truck—is subject to the mood swings Miriam brings to everything she does. It just isn't going well.
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