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Reel

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UPC: 9781942600701
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Author: Tobias Carroll
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  • Paperback: 280 pages
  • Publisher: Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book (October 11, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1942600704
  • ISBN-13: 978-1942600701
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.2 x 8.2 inches

Reel follows two lives that collide at a Seattle punk show, and the strange consequences that arise. Timon serves as the hyperobservant western outpost of his family's business, verifying artifacts and losing himself in deafening music and isolation. Marianne fears stagnation, and has begun to crave the rootless travel of her youth. After a tense meeting, each proceeds through a series of surreal encounters that deconstruct the lives that they've created, forcing each one into a reckoning with the world around them.

Review

"Carroll is one of those rare authors that combines a fine eye for detail and an understanding of what makes people tick with an admirable command of language and a lyricism that makes some passages tread very close to poetry. The sum of those elements adds up to a debut novel that reads like the latest effort from a veteran author who has already figured out how to deliver a rich, satisfying narrative in less than 200 pages."

- Gabino Iglesias, LitReactor