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Genre: Fantasy
ebook, 429 pages
Kindle Edition: 662 pages
Published: 2017
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2018)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (2018) Finalist
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Horror (2017)
One manโs thrilling journey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after seemingly committing an unforgiveable act of violence, from the award-winning author of the The Devil in Silver and Big Machine.
Apollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have haunted him since childhood. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improbabilia, he is just beginning to settle into his new life as a committed and involved father, unlike his own father who abandoned him, when his wife Emma begins acting strange. Disconnected and uninterested in their new baby boy, Emma at first seems to be exhibiting all the signs of post-partum depression, but it quickly becomes clear that her troubles go far beyond that. Before Apollo can do anything to help, Emma commits a horrific actโbeyond any parentโs comprehensionโand vanishes, seemingly into thin air. Thus begins Apolloโs odyssey through a world he only thought he understood to find a wife and child who are nothing like heโd imagined. His quest begins when he meets a mysterious stranger who claims to have information about Emmaโs whereabouts. Apollo then begins a journey that takes him to a forgotten island in the East River of New York City, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest in Queens where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever. This dizzying tale is ultimately a story about family and the unfathomable secrets of the people we love.
Setting: New York City
"If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaValle."โAnthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See
"A dark fairy tale of New York, full of magic and loss, myth and mystery, love and madness. The Changeling is a mesmerizing, monumental work."โMarlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (2018), British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel (August Derleth Award) (2018)
Award- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (), Award- World Fantasy Award for Best Novel ()
Award- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (), Award- World Fantasy Award for Best Novel ()
Award- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (), Award- World Fantasy Award for Best Novel ()