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The Average Human
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The Mayborn family has cast its shadow over the small town of Loomis for generations. Accompanied by rumours of unnatural family unions, the Mayborns have sunk from their position as powerful landowners to become a white trash clan of pariahs. June Mayborn, a fourteen-year-old with a preternatural sense of smell and a dubious code of morals, lights a deadly fire, accidentally killing an aging cult leader. The subsequent funeral draws the beautiful and capricious Iris Utter and her sombre daughter, Lee, back to Loomis where eight years earlier Iris’s son mysteriously disappeared. Needing answers to the past, they begin a dangerous and disturbing relationship with the Mayborns. This bold and original novel, spiked with dark humour, explores the boundaries of family ties and consequences of crossing them.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.185 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.6 × 13 × 20 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 272 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2004-5-6 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099468689 |
| About The Author | Ellen Potter's short stories have appeared in The Hudson Review, Epoch, Cimarron Review, and Seventeen, and her children's book, Olivia Kidney was published in June 2003. A native New Yorker, she now resides in rural upstate New York. The Average Human is her first novel. |
The shifting viewpoints intensify the mystery, and, in true gothic literary style, reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor, first-novelist Toby-Potter's strong, dark narrative reveals the strangeness even in those who appear most "normal," how wild they all are and how close. |
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| Other text | An intricate tale that manages not to trip itself up, crisply narrated with a minimum of digression and a remarkable understatement that draws you into the action |
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