The Shadow Year A Novel
The Shadow Year A Novel by Jeffrey Ford is a reprint edition published by HarperCollins on March 17, 2009. This 304-page novel is set in the 1960s on New York’s Long Island, where a young boy and his brother create a detailed cardboard replica of their community called Botch Town in their family’s basement. The story unfolds as their little sister, Mary, engages in peculiar behaviors that intertwine with unsettling events in their lives, including disappearances and spectral sightings.
Readers will find a narrative that explores the complexities of childhood imagination and the eerie connections between the miniature world of Botch Town and the real-life occurrences surrounding the siblings. As the story progresses, the atmosphere thickens with mystery, particularly as the siblings grapple with the strange happenings that seem to correlate with Mary’s interactions with their crafted town. This edition invites readers into a world where innocence meets the uncanny, reflecting on the shadows that linger in both childhood and memory.
Official synopsis Publisher
On New York’s Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family’s modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detailed cardboard replica of their community, complete with figurines representing friends and neighbors. Their little sister, Mary, smokes cigarettes, speaks in other voices, inhabits alternate personas . . . and, unbeknownst to her siblings, moves around the inanimate clay residents.
There is a strangeness in the air as disappearances, deaths, spectral sightings, and the arrival of a sinister man in a long white car mark this unforgettable shadow year. But strangest of all is the inescapable fact that all these troubling occurrences directly cor-respond to the changes little Mary has made to the miniature town in their basement.
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