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Stoner deftly limns the Moffats: Daniel (“Boone”), a cop who first saw the devil at age 13; former TV sports announcer Reggie, now one of the “shadows,” or squatters secretly living in Disney World; Xanax-popping sister Veronica, “America’s most misanthropic nurse”; dad Wes, a former TV kiddie-show host who evolved into a collector of local New Hampshire history (well, lore); and Mom, once Sister Donica Lenore, who foresees the future and has raised her brood to be warriors against the devil. As Wes and Sister’s fiftieth anniversary looms, middle-aged Boone and Veronica lure estranged, 45-year-old baby bro home from his new life in the Magic Kingdom. That sets the scene for a mystical quest of and for spiritual faith. Comic touches and long strings of rambling, strangely logical dialogue combine with oddball characters and well-paced backstory in a structure resembling the comparison of family photos then and family photos now. An oddly endearing first novel demonstrating that every picture tells a story and that eccentric families are the most interesting families. --Whitney Scott
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In 1910 the Cohen family, in search of the Golden Medina, undertakes a dangerous journey from Russia to the United States, where the new world exposes family secrets, cultural conflicts, the corruption of the American Dream, and love's divides.
Stoner deftly limns the Moffats: Daniel (“Boone”), a cop who first saw the devil at age 13; former TV sports announcer Reggie, now one of the “shadows,” or squatters secretly living in Disney World; Xanax-popping sister Veronica, “America’s most misanthropic nurse”; dad Wes, a former TV kiddie-show host who evolved into a collector of local New Hampshire history (well, lore); and Mom, once Sister Donica Lenore, who foresees the future and has raised her brood to be warriors against the devil. As Wes and Sister’s fiftieth anniversary looms, middle-aged Boone and Veronica lure estranged, 45-year-old baby bro home from his new life in the Magic Kingdom. That sets the scene for a mystical quest of and for spiritual faith. Comic touches and long strings of rambling, strangely logical dialogue combine with oddball characters and well-paced backstory in a structure resembling the comparison of family photos then and family photos now. An oddly endearing first novel demonstrating that every picture tells a story and that eccentric families are the most interesting families. --Whitney Scott
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In 1910 the Cohen family, in search of the Golden Medina, undertakes a dangerous journey from Russia to the United States, where the new world exposes family secrets, cultural conflicts, the corruption of the American Dream, and love's divides.
Traveling in steerage to Ellis Island, the family endures the poverty and dirt of New York City and retreats to a farm in southern New Jersey--to find not the agricultural Eden they were promised, but Babylon. Told in several voices, this tale bears witness to a new generation learning to find hope in a land that often sacrifices human decency for profit and greed.
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