The paper crackles with age as Simon turns the yellowed pages filled with notes, sketches, and whimsical flourishes and his best friend and fellow librarian, Alice, looks on in increasing alarm. The book tells the story of Amos and Evangeline, doomed lovers who lived and worked in a traveling circus more than two hundred years ago. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious package from an antiquarian bookseller. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards, and seldom calls. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. "Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home-a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea.
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