Spoonbenders

Author: Daryl Gregory

The year is 1995.Meet the Telemachuses: an apparently ordinary family with strikingly obvious issues. Their individual personalities are eccentric, their intergenerational relationships are strained, their collective failures are well documented, and their finances are, well, let’s not even go there.The city is Chicago.For Grandson Matty Telemachus, this is just the way th….Read More

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