Keir Graff
Autor/a de The Matchstick Castle
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: By Denverjeffrey - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4319194
Obres de Keir Graff
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1969
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Missoula, Montana, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 11
- Membres
- 294
- Popularitat
- #79,674
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 32
- ISBN
- 47
- Llengües
- 2
This was at a little free library and sounded interesting even though I'm a bit older than the intended reader.
At its core, this book is about how people we lose are with us as long as we remember them--and the ways in which we can do so. It's also a reminder not to obsess about it.
Mal and Colm miss their father--and their mother has taken a new job and moved them to Chicago. Their mother's boss also misses his father. And this is where the fantasy/magic aspect of the story comes in: via a curse meant to punish the building's owner that also trapped others, including the father. One hour every day, a portal opens to this phantom world
Join Mal, Colm, and their new friend Tamika as they unravel the history of their apartment building and of the curse while attempting to understand why it exists.… (més)