Crossings, Paperback/Alex Landragin

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Indie Next Pick! Jenny Lawson Book Club Pick! Barnes Noble Book of the Month Pick! A sparkling debut. Landragin's seductive literary romp shines as a celebration of the act of storytelling. -- Publishers Weekly Romance, mystery, history, and magical invention dance across centuries in an impressive debut novel. -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Deft writing seduces the reader in a complex tale of pursuit, denial, and retribution moving from past to future. Highly recommended. -- Library Journal (Starred Review) Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut--a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings . It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence. The first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl. Next is a noir romance about an exiled man, modeled on Walter Benjamin, whose recurring nightmares are cured when he falls in love with a storyteller who draws him into a dangerous intrigue of rare manuscripts, police corruption, and literary societies. Finally, there are the fantastical memoirs of a woman-turned-monarch whose singular life has sp

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