6/3/2023 0 Comments Kingfisher the twisted ones![]() ![]() The sheer volume of found manuscript begs patience of its reader by the middle of the novel, but once things start going bump in the night at the house, the thrills leave you wanting more. ![]() The Green Book is a book within a journal within the novel. In a genre where film narratives are full of found footage, The Twisted Ones contains a generous helping of found manuscript. To protect himself from them, he repeats a phrase from something called the Green Book, which he does his best to reconstruct from memory. Fredrick had been an amiable Welshman with a strange tolerance for his wife’s verbal hostility, and a stranger still knowledge of mythical woodland creatures. ![]() While doing the tedious work of clearing out room after room of hoarded junk, Mouse finds her step-grandfather Fredrick’s journal. To make matters worse, Mouse discovers that her grandmother had been a hoarder. Having had no love for her unkind grandmother, she has no emotional connection to the house. ![]() Mouse and her coonhound Bongo drive to her grandmother’s house in an overgrown patch of rural North Carolina. She is humble to the point of apologizing for not starting out the story perfectly enough, and appropriately goes by the nickname “Mouse.” When her ailing father asks her to clean out the home of her recently deceased grandmother so that it can be sold, Mouse agrees in order to spare him the stress. The Twisted Ones is a Southern gothic tale told in the folksy, rambling charm of its narrator, Melissa. ![]()
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