Friday Reads: Absynthe by Brendan P. Bellecourt.jpg
Some it kills. Others it transforms. See beyond the illusion.
CHICAGO, 1928.
The Great War has been over for years, and a brave new world forged. With it, Liam’s world has transformed as well. He grew up poor, but now works for one of the richest families in Chicago, reaping the benefits of his friendship with the family’s son and heir.
Now he’s at Club Artemis: a palace of art-deco delights and debauchery, filled to bursting with the rich and beautiful. And tonight they’re all drinking one thing. Absynthe. The green liquor rumoured to cause hallucinations, madness – even death.
While gilded youths sip the viridescent liquid, their seemingly perfect world is crumbling. Their absynthe is no mere folly: some it kills, others it transforms.
But in Liam something different has taken place: he can see the world without its illusion. And it isn’t the perfect world the government want people to believe…
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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