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Book SynopsisOne of BuzzFeed''s 24 Best Fiction Books of 2015
**Includes a bonus short story by Erika Swyler, The Mermaid Girl**
As Simon, a lonely research librarian, searches frantically for the key to a curse that might be killing the women in his family, he learns strange and fascinating secrets about their past. A tale full of magic and family mystery, The Book of Speculation will keep you up all night reading.Isaac Fitzgerald, BuzzFeed
Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards for a traveling carnival.
One June day, an old book arrives on Simon''s doorstep, sent by an antiquarian bookseller who purchased it on speculation. Fragile and water damaged, the bo
