03245cam a2200421 i 4500 1329452103 TxAuBib 20240612120000.0 170726t20182017||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780812985870 paperback 0812985877 paperback (OCoLC)995141205 TxAuBib rda LaValle, Victor D., 1972-, author. The changeling [Print] : a novel / Victor LaValle. Trade paperback edition. New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2018. ©2017. 431 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier One man’s thrilling journey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after seemingly committing an unforgiveable act of violence, from the award-winning author of the The Devil in Silver and Big Machine. Apollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have haunted him since childhood. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improbabilia, he is just beginning to settle into his new life as a committed and involved father, unlike his own father who abandoned him, when his wife Emma begins acting strange. Disconnected and uninterested in their new baby boy, Emma at first seems to be exhibiting all the signs of post-partum depression, but it quickly becomes clear that her troubles go far beyond that. Before Apollo can do anything to help, Emma commits a horrific act—beyond any parent’s comprehension—and vanishes, seemingly into thin air. Thus begins Apollo’s odyssey through a world he only thought he understood to find a wife and child who are nothing like he’d imagined. His quest begins when he meets a mysterious stranger who claims to have information about Emma’s whereabouts. Apollo then begins a journey that takes him to a forgotten island in the East River of New York City, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest in Queens where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever. This dizzying tale is ultimately a story about family and the unfathomable secrets of the people we love. 20240612. Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (2018), World Fantasy Award for Novel (2018), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2018), American Book Award (2018), Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (2017), Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017), British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel (August Derleth Award) (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Horror (2017), Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel (2017), PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee for Shortlist (2018.) Missing persons Fiction. Families Fiction. Dreams Fiction. Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary. bisacsh FICTION / Horror. FICTION / Thrillers / General. Fantasy fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Suspense fiction. TXTLL