Scott Wilbanks is an American expat living in New Zealand with his “frustratingly perfect husband.” A former national title holder in the sport of gymnastics whose left arm is an inch shorter than his right—the result of a career-ending accident — Scott ditched the corporate world to “see where this writing will take me.” The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster is his debut novel.
The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster by Scott Wilbanks
In May 1895, Elsbeth Grundy, a crotchety widow living in a cabin on the Kansas plains, sees a purple and gold-painted Victorian home that has unexpectedly appeared in her wheat fields. Elsbeth determinedly stalks over to the home to demand an explanation of this irksome addition to her back forty, but every time she goes to knock on the door, she’s immediately displaced back to the gate around the home. Incensed, she leaves a letter in the mailbox, threatening to use her shotgun to deal with this unwanted trespass.
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Aren't smart, feisty, sarcastic protagonists pretty much the default in genre fiction nowadays? From that baseline you move up to…
COMMENT My highest recommendation!
that's what I was thinking. It looks like an intriguing story, seriously.
COMMENT Ha! That's funny! Doing the ol' invisible box shtick, right?
I mean, he looks scared, but he could also be an apprentice mime.