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Everyone Here Is From Somewhere Else: A Novel
Where do you look once the search has ended?
Mysteries, comedy, and atmospheric Irish golf abound in this stand-alone novel that also continues the stories of Phillip and Spencer Elliot first explored in the novel Mr. Wizard. The middle-aged brothers undertake a quest inspired by their dead mother to discover "wonderful things"—the phrase used by archaeologist Howard Carter in describing his first look into King Tut's tomb.
Jenny Elliot, the boys' mother, was a budding Egyptologist as a girl, and the brothers consider themes of permanence, change, and legacy as they follow a trail to find their true place in the world—place being key as the brothers consider whether where you live is as crucial to who you are as such other obvious factors as DNA and upbringing.
Mysteries, comedy, and atmospheric Irish golf abound in this stand-alone novel that also continues the stories of Phillip and Spencer Elliot first explored in the novel Mr. Wizard. The middle-aged brothers undertake a quest inspired by their dead mother to discover "wonderful things"—the phrase used by archaeologist Howard Carter in describing his first look into King Tut's tomb.
Jenny Elliot, the boys' mother, was a budding Egyptologist as a girl, and the brothers consider themes of permanence, change, and legacy as they follow a trail to find their true place in the world—place being key as the brothers consider whether where you live is as crucial to who you are as such other obvious factors as DNA and upbringing.
256 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 26, 2022
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Jeff Wallach
9 books8 followersJeff Wallach is the award-winning author of four books of non-fiction as well as nearly 1,000 articles, essays, columns, and reviews in such publications as The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Oregonian, Men’s Journal, Men’s Health, Sports Illustrated, GOLF Magazine, Golf Digest, Popular Science, Outside, and many, many others.
Jeff holds a Masters Degree in Fiction Writing from Brown University (1984) and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Vassar College (1982). He has taught both fiction and magazine writing classes in high school, college, and adult education programs and at writers conferences.
Jeff's first novel, Mr. Wizard, will be published by Open Books in April 2020. He lives, works, hikes, and plays golf and soccer in Portland, Oregon.
Jeff holds a Masters Degree in Fiction Writing from Brown University (1984) and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Vassar College (1982). He has taught both fiction and magazine writing classes in high school, college, and adult education programs and at writers conferences.
Jeff's first novel, Mr. Wizard, will be published by Open Books in April 2020. He lives, works, hikes, and plays golf and soccer in Portland, Oregon.
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August 26, 2022
This wonderful book is the 2nd volume of a family saga (the first part was the equally worthwhile "Mr. Wizard".) Lots of good hearted humor, fun cultural touchstones, and a complex family that you will laugh with, cry with, and become wrapped up in their world.
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