On the bay, she runs into a fellow bootlegger in distress – but he tries to kill her, and Ellie ends up killing him in self-defence. Her younger brother Lester was accepted to university, and she’s determined to see him go – determined enough to work at night during a bad blow, on her way back from her lover (poet Rocky) to her fiancé (carpenter Gabriel, who’s on board with the whole Rocky thing). Creatures of Want and Ruin is her latest, set in the same continuity as Creatures of Will and Temper, but where Creatures of Will and Temper set its action in 19th-century London, Creatures of Want and Ruin removes to Prohibition New York, setting itself in small-town Long Island among poets and bootleggers.Įllie West works on the bay near the town of Amityville, fishing by day and selling bootleg moonshine by night. Molly Tanzer has a track record of writing weird and marvelous novels that sit uneasily on the border between dark fantasy and horror. Creatures of Want and Ruin, Molly Tanzer ( John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 9781328710253, $16.99, 352pp, tp).
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