Standalone Novels In Publication Order
- The Seas (2004)
- The Invention of Everything Else (2008)
- Mr. Splitfoot (2016)
Collections In Publication Order
- The Dark Dark (2017)
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Samantha Hunt Books Overview
The Seas
The narrator of The Seas lives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chambermaid, granddaughter to a typesetter, and daughter to a dead man, awkward and brave, wayward and willful, she is in love unrequited with an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. She is convinced that she is a mermaid. What she does to ease the pain of growing up lands her in prison. What she does to get out is the stuff of legend. In the words of writer Michelle Tea, The Seas is ‘creepy and poetic, subversive and strangely funny, and a phenomenal piece of literature.’
The Invention of Everything Else
From the moment Louisa first catches sight of the strange man who occupies a forbidden room on the thirty third floor, she is determined to befriend him. Unbeknownst to Louisa, he is Nikola Tesla inventor of AC electricity and wireless communication and he is living out his last days at the Hotel New Yorker. Winning his attention through a shared love of pigeons, she eventually uncovers the story of Tesla’s life as a Serbian immigrant and a visionary genius: as a boy he built engines powered by June bugs, as a man he dreamed of pulling electricity from the sky. The mystery deepens when Louisa reunites with an enigmatic former classmate and faces the loss of her father as he attempts to travel to the past to meet up with his beloved late wife. Before the week is out, Louisa must come to terms with her own understanding of love, death, and the power of invention.
The Invention of Everything Else immerses the reader in a magical mid twentieth century New York City thrumming with energy, wonder, and possibility.
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