5/29/2023 0 Comments Tangerine novel edward bloor![]() Paul is hampered by damaged eyes, apocryphally attributed to looking directly at an eclipse of the sun, but he sees more than anyone believes. The families are perfect, the houses are perfect, the school is perfect, everything is bright and cheery, although it rests upon swamp that's been burning for years, re-ignited by the frequent lightning strikes from the daily thunderstorms. Lake Windsor Downs is a representative modern development, a series of cookie-cutter houses on curvy streets, abruptly bordering the swampland that it overlays like a toy town rolled out on a sheet of Astroturf. Paul Fisher's family starts the book in transit, moving from Houston to a development in Tangerine County, Florida. ![]() It sounds closer in style to a Goosebumps title than your average young-adult fiction, but it's far better than that.Īt the core of this story is a common trope: kid moves to a new city, full of the unfamiliar and populated by kinds of people he's never met before. ![]() When I first bought Edward Bloor's Tangerine, the flap summary, the various covers, and the information online all led me to believe the book had a supernatural component: the blind can see, predictable lightning that does strike twice, geeks are cool - up is down, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria - and cryptic hints of an evil older brother. ![]()
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