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Floating on Air

by Brian Biswas Publisher: INDEPENDENT CAT

A town suspended between the strange and the familiar

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A town suspended between the strange and the familiar

El Paatiro is the center of a story spanning five decades: a mythical Mississippi town founded by political outcasts from Brazil and eventually destroyed. The narrative turns on seventeen-year-old Jennifer Amos’s investigation of local mysteries, bringing her into contact with a magician, a nihilist, an eccentric scientist, and a fortune-teller whose prediction unsettles the town. Magical realism shapes a setting where unusual events and questions of love and meaning meet, while the town’s rise and fall gives the story a wider historical arc.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in magical realism and fantastical elements in a small-town setting.
  • For readers drawn to stories of young women searching for love and meaning.
  • For readers who enjoy narratives spanning a community’s rise and decline over time.

Themes

Magical realismLove and meaningCommunity and destructionMystery and prediction

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Book overview

Floating on Air chronicles the rise and fall of a mythical Mississippi town in the 1950s, from its founding by political outcasts from Brazil to its cataclysmic destruction fifty years later.

When seventeen-year-old Jennifer Amos investigates strange goings-on in El Paatiro, her life becomes entangled with a host of intriguing characters: a traveling magician who captivates the populace with amazing feats of prestidigitation, a philosophical nihilist advocating chaos and destruction, an eccentric scientist whose knowledge of the world is equaled only by his ability to misinterpret it, and a reluctant fortune-teller who makes an alarming prediction.

 

A compelling work of magical realism, Floating on Air tells the story of a young woman searching for love and meaning in a world where nothing is as it seems.

 

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