Synopses & Reviews
Miranda Romanac is a successful thirtysomething woman in today's modern world, yet she feels alone and adrift on the sea of her life. At her high school reunion she makes a shattering discovery that further undermines her already shaky sense of who she is and where she is going. When she meets the remarkable Hugh Oakley, her life takes a 180-degree turn for the better--but at what price?
When they move to a house in the country to start a new life together, the reality Miranda had once known begins to slip away. Miranda is haunted by alarming, impossible visions and strangers whom she feels certain she has known, although they are all from other times and places. As these phantom lives consume her own and begin to affect all that she knows and loves, Miranda must learn the truth to reclaim it. But sometimes the hardest truth to accept is the knowledge of who we really are.
Review
"Urbane, cosmopolitan, utterly up-to-the-minute fiction." --
Entertainment Weekly"Jonathan Carroll is a true original, possessing both a distinctive vision and the talent to make that vision come fully to life." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Jonathan Carroll creates contemporary romances in the literary tradition of Hawthorne and other masters of the form....Fête him, read his books. See him for what he is--one of our most gifted and intelligent entertainers. As a novelist, I thank the gods that he's chosen the best art I think we have--the novel--to make his vision large." --The Washington Post
"The Marriage of Sticks is a wonderful book. Jonathan Carroll's prose is so closely akin to poetry that you may want to read occasional passages more than once just to savor them. And his brand of fantasy is unique. The novel is filled with hope and, ultimately, with joy, not just for the narrator but for the reader." --Rocky Mountain News
About the Author
Jonathan Carroll has written 13 novels, a short story collection, and a number of film scripts. He has won the World Fantasy award, British Fantasy award, French Fantasy award (twice), and the Bram Stoker award. He has lived in Vienna, Austria for three decades with his wife Beverly and immortal bullterrier, Jack the Idiot.