O. Henry Award-winning author Brian Evenson’s surreal THE OPEN CURTAIN, exploring an impressionable boy’s obsession with a hundred-year-old murder that becomes increasingly and unsettlingly more and more relevant to his life, to Chris Fischbach at Coffee House Press, by Matt McGowan at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency (NA; translation, excl. France).
Not exactly an original premise. Half the suspense and mystery novels ever published have to do with vulnerable protagonists investigating long-ago murders. What would be really original would be a novel about a vulnerable protagonist who resolutely refuses to get sucked into an obsession with a long-ago murder and stays focused in the present.
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