![]() ![]() ![]() As the story begins, they're in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and her father is about to start a gig at a wedding party. Ellie has lived the RV life since she was six, when her mother committed suicide and she and her father left Las Vegas. ![]() Within that stillness I found a connection to protagonist 16-year-old Elias Dante, Jr., a.k.a Ellie, daughter of the Uncanny Dante, a once well-respected Las Vegas magician who became notorious for a spectacularly failed magic trick on Late Night with Craig Rogan (think Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show when he had those "Magic Weeks"). It's a YA novel I wish I could've read when I was 16. That's what it felt like to finish The Lightness of Hands by the word magician Jeff Garvin. You don't want to leave it the real world can wait. The stillness that comes right after reading a book that has wrapped itself firmly around your heart is so distinct from the stillness just before you fall asleep or when you go out for an early morning jog before the rest of the world is stirring. In this captivating YA novel, a teenager with bipolar disorder attempts to guide her magician father toward a career comeback. ![]()
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