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Samantha Hunt

    January 1, 1971

    Samantha Hunt crafts narratives that delve into the liminal spaces between reality and imagination, often set against backdrops imbued with their own histories. Her writing is marked by sharp introspection and a singular lens through which she views human emotion and connection. Hunt fearlessly experiments with form and language, resulting in works that are both thought-provoking and utterly captivating. Her novels resonate with a profound understanding of life's complexities and the enduring search for meaning.

    The Invention of Everything Else
    The Dark Dark
    Mr Splitfoot
    Invention of Everything Else
    The Unwritten Book
    The Seas
    • The Seas

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      4.1(918)Add rating

      National Bestseller Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She’s often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean eleven years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid. True to myth, she finds herself in hard love with a land-bound man, an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior.The mesmerizing, fevered coming-of-age tale that follows will land her in jail. Her otherworldly escape will become the stuff of legend. With the inventive brilliance and psychological insight that have earned her international acclaim, Samantha Hunt pulls readers into an undertow of impossible love and intoxication, blurring the lines between reality and fairy tale, hope and delusion, sanity and madness.

      The Seas
    • "What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? The Unwritten Book gathers subjects that haunt: the dead, the forest, the towering library of all those books we'll never have time to read or write. Samantha Hunt, like a mad crossword puzzler, looks for patterns and clues. She explores motherhood, hoarding, addiction, grief, how we insulate ourselves from the past, how we misinterpret the world. Nestled within her inquiry is a very special ghost book, an incomplete manuscript about people who can fly without wings, written by her father and found in his desk just days after he died. What secrets might his work reveal? The Unwritten Book conveys a vivid, grateful life that sheds fear for wonder and revels in randomness, connectivity, the magic of everyday existence, and the immense weight of love"--Back cover

      The Unwritten Book
    • Invention of Everything Else

      • 273 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.8(117)Add rating

      Nikola Tesla spends the last days of his extraordinary life at the Hotel New Yorker “in this surreal historical novel [that] dazzles in the details” (The New Yorker). It is 1943, and legendary inventor Nikola Tesla occupies a forbidden room on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker, stealing electricity. Broke, forgotten, and suffering from a weak heart, his only consolations are his memories and his daily walks to Bryant Park. Louisa, a young hotel chambermaid, is determined to befriend him. And as she helps him on his daily walks, she wins his affection through a shared love of pigeons. Little by little, he confides in her the tragic and tremendous story of his life. Meanwhile, Louisa’s father is embarking on an unlikely mission to travel back in time to find his beloved late wife. A “sophisticated pastiche of science fiction, fantasy, melodrama, and historical anecdote,” The Invention of Everything Else is both a heartfelt story of love and death and an homage to one of history's most visionary scientists (Elle).

      Invention of Everything Else
    • A contemporary gothic from an author in the company of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender, Mr. Splitfoot tracks two women in two times as they march toward a mysterious reckoning. číst celé

      Mr Splitfoot
    • Samantha Hunt's first collection of stories, The Dark Dark, blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the verge - girls turning into women, women turning into deer, people doubling or becoming ghosts, and more.

      The Dark Dark
    • The Invention of Everything Else

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.6(121)Add rating

      Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory. Brought together by a shared interest in the pigeons that nest in the hotel, Louisa discovers that the mysterious guest is Nikola Tesla, one of the most brilliant - and most neglected - inventors of the twentieth century.The Invention of Everything Else charts the relationship of the girl and the genius during the last week of Tesla's life, when sinister forces are closing in on him. However, as well as being an engaging literary mystery, this exceptional novel movingly tells the life story of this extraordinary man and also recounts the heartbreak and redemption of one ordinary family..

      The Invention of Everything Else