PSA: Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane Drops Tomorrow
Because five years is long enough.
Gaiman’s first novel for adults since Anansi Boys begins with a quiet country scene, the narrator remembering a horrifying event from his childhood and encountering a strange family he once knew. A stolen car, a stranger’s suicide, and a duck pond that may actually be an ocean weave together into a tale made up of memories and a surprisingly important microcosm of good and evil. The frightened, bookish narrator and a strange girl are quickly drawn into an investigation of things that were not ever meant to be in our world.
If you just can’t wait until Tuesday, here’s a video of Gaiman reading an excerpt.
(via GeekExchange, image via Amazon)
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