The Glass Frog - Lowry, J. Brandon
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Sophie Farrier -- a bright and imaginative teen girl -- was born with rotten luck. Misfortune has placed her in Seaside, a dull and dreary village filled with dull and dreary people. It is a place where creativity is frowned upon, outsiders are shunned, and no one dares to stand out. Those who actually muster up the courage to leave are never heard from again. After a terrible storm, the sea casts ashore a mysterious, unconscious man who bears the gifts of magic. Seaside is thrown into an uproar, and in the resulting chaos, Sophie gets a glimpse of the dread secrets buried at home. Now she…mehr

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Sophie Farrier -- a bright and imaginative teen girl -- was born with rotten luck. Misfortune has placed her in Seaside, a dull and dreary village filled with dull and dreary people. It is a place where creativity is frowned upon, outsiders are shunned, and no one dares to stand out. Those who actually muster up the courage to leave are never heard from again. After a terrible storm, the sea casts ashore a mysterious, unconscious man who bears the gifts of magic. Seaside is thrown into an uproar, and in the resulting chaos, Sophie gets a glimpse of the dread secrets buried at home. Now she must set out on a journey to learn more about her family, her world, and herself. Yet the road out of Seaside is fraught with peril. There is a keeper of secrets lying in Sophie's path, one whose ruined past is entwined wither her own. A master of deception, he seeks to destroy her very sense of self using the cruelest weapon of all -- the truth.
Autorenporträt
J. Brandon Lowry was born and raised in the west-central mountains of Idaho. After high school, he left his small-town home to pursue a career in science, eventually receiving his PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Oregon. In 2017, disillusioned with life and yearning for something more, he and his wife quit their jobs, sold their possessions, and began traveling full time. They have since explored 23 countries across six continents, living out of backpacks and house/pet-sitting along the way. The Glass Frog is his first novel. His short fiction and poetry has appeared at Reservoir Road Literary Review, Tall Tale TV, The Weekly Knob, The Junction, Lit Up, Literally Literary, and Midnight Mosaic Fiction.