Carnivals, Curses And Mermaids Fall Slightly Flat In 'Speculation'
Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? Books about books can be tricky things, a fact that Erika Swyler slyly acknowledges in her generous yet somewhat disappointing debut novel, The Book of Speculation. In it, a young librarian named Simon Watson finds himself in the midst of numerous erosions and breakdowns: His family has all