Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
About the Book
Compassionate, boisterous, and just a little bit magical, Spoonbenders is a welcome reminder of the importance of family, the uncanny power of love and the first literary novel from one of America’s best loved SF writers.
Spoonbenders tells the story of the legacy and legend of a dysfunctional, normal, entirely unique family across three generations of big personalities and socially inept recluses - each cursed with the potential of being something special.
The Amazing Telemachus Family achieved widespread fame in the mid-1970s for their magic and mind reading act. Until one night the magic disappeared live on national television, leaving the entire family in disarray.
Decades later the Telemachus children are still picking up the pieces. Frankie, who once moved objects with is mind, is in debt to the Mafia; Irene, the human lie detector, can’t trust anyone; and Buddy, who can see the future, has inexplicably dug a giant hole in the backyard. Life as they know it may be over until Matty, Irene’s son, discovers a bit of the family magic in himself - maybe enough to save them all and make the Telemachuses amazing again.
About the Author
Daryl Gregory is the author of the multiple-award-winning We Are All Completely Fine, which is in development at Syfy. Ahead of its release in July, Spoonbenders has also been optioned by Paramount TV. His novel We Are All Completely Fine won the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson award, and was a finalist for the Nebula, Sturgeon, and Locus awards. His novel Afterparty was a National Public Radio and Kirkus Best Fiction book of the year. His other novels are the Crawford-Award-winning Pandemonium, The Devil’s Alphabet, and Raising Stony Mayhall. Many of his short stories are collected in Unpossible and Other Stories. A trilogy of young adult horror novels, the Harrison Squared series, will be published in 2018.
Daryl Gregory grew up in Chicago and has lived in various other cities within a few miles of the continent-spanning highway, Interstate 80, including his current home, Oakland, California. He’s been a high school teacher, a technical writer, and a programmer, and now writes full time, occasionally dabbling in comics and videogame scripts.
