It’s a riveting sequel to Oddity.
Clover and Nessa, with the help of new friends, are tasked with rooting out the last of the pestilential Vermin. But when the group is attacked by a new kind of monster they discover a much greater threat lurks.
This long-awaited follow-up to Oddity is a wildly imaginative and engrossing dark fantasy set in an alternate American past.
As a child, Eli Brown's imagination was set ablaze by the mythologies of the world. He was particularly interested in magical objects, such as Odysseus's bag of wind, Arjuna's Bow, Bilbo's ring, and Jack's beans.
MOONCUSSERS is the eagerly-anticipated sequel to his critically-acclaimed middle-grade novel, ODDITY. In it, Clover and Nessa are joined by new friends who have their own powerful connection to magical objects. And just in time too as a dark threat looms over this alternate America weakened by continued war with Napoleon.
Brown's culinary pirate novel, CINNAMON AND GUNPOWDER, was a finalist for the California Book Award, a San Francisco Public Library One-City One-Book selection, and an NPR Book Review Staff Pick.
Brown’s first novel, THE GREAT DAYS (Boaz Publications), won the Fabri Prize for Literature. Publishers Weekly called it “…a harrowing, convincing look into the heart of cult life that should linger with readers.”
In addition to writing, Brown has worked as a groundskeeper, a massage therapist, and, most recently, a stay-at-home dad. Because he has not (yet) found an invisibility ring, Brown has contented himself with the mundane magics of gardening and fermentation. Just yesterday he turned an iffy pint of milk into honey-sage yogurt.
A Yaddo fellow and featured reader at Litquake, Brown earned his MFA from Mills college. He lives with his family in Northern California where the squirrels bury acorns in his garden and cats bury worse.