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From the Dust Returned

From the Dust Returned

FantasyLiterary Fiction
Pages
215
Published
2001
Language
English

Synopsis

Step into a house of legend in upper Illinois, where an Eternal Family, unlike any other, prepares for a grand reunion. These are not your average midwesterners; some sleep in beds with lids, and their oldest members predate ancient civilizations. As shapeshifters, telepaths, and vampires gather, a sense of foreboding hangs in the air, for the world outside is changing, and death always shadows this singular family.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

MysteriousAtmosphericDreamyMelancholic
Found FamilyFamily Saga

Genres

Fantasy Literary Fiction Paranormal Magical Realism

About the author

R
Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes, are masterworks that readers carry wi...

Characters

CecyProtagonist
Uncle EinarSupporting
A Thousand Times Great GrandméreSupporting
All characters in From the Dust Returned