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A review by candacesiegle_greedyreader
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
4.0
Dysfunctional family novels . . .come on, don't they make you feel better about your own relatives? So here we have a book about an out-of-whack family with a twist; some of them, or all of them, may, or may not be, psychics. They're confused, too.
It all went wrong for the Telemachus family when they botched the appearance on the Mike Douglas Show that should have rocketed them into celebrity status and assured their futures. Instead, they are all struggling like regular folks, but with a big quirk.
"Spoonbenders" is frisky and, like the Telemachi, quirky. Daryl Gregory throws in some interesting tidbits about the possible use of psychics during the Cold War, including the development of some sci-fi gizmos to sniff out people with psychic ability. Throw in the Chicago mob--yes, even people with psychic card-counting ability can end up short the vig--and you have a spirited (ahem!) novel.
Thanks to Knopf for letting me pre-read!
It all went wrong for the Telemachus family when they botched the appearance on the Mike Douglas Show that should have rocketed them into celebrity status and assured their futures. Instead, they are all struggling like regular folks, but with a big quirk.
"Spoonbenders" is frisky and, like the Telemachi, quirky. Daryl Gregory throws in some interesting tidbits about the possible use of psychics during the Cold War, including the development of some sci-fi gizmos to sniff out people with psychic ability. Throw in the Chicago mob--yes, even people with psychic card-counting ability can end up short the vig--and you have a spirited (ahem!) novel.
Thanks to Knopf for letting me pre-read!