![]() ![]() I was then piqued by Mitchell’s works because of Cloud Atlas’ inclusion in numerous must-read lists. His perversion for genre-bending was in full showcase in his magnus opus, Cloud Atlas, and also in The Bone Clocks, a book I purchased way back in 2015 out of whim. A Cambridge scholar, an Iraq war reporter, a middle-aged writer exiled from the bestseller list – all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world.ĭavid Mitchell is a genre bender, a literary free spirit who willfully glides over the fine lines that separate the distinct literary genres. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people she loves – even the ones who are not yet born. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family scarred. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics – and their enemies. Following a fight with her mother about her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life. ![]()
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