Book Nook: Only and Ever This

 Beautifully written, Only and Ever This by J.A. Tyler blends magical realism with the honest emotions and dynamics of a grieving family.

A mother clings to her twin sons, desperate to keep them from becoming their father, a pirate forever sailing away. In this rain-soaked township, she will attempt to mummify her sons, piece by piece, to stop them from growing up, a hope founded in magic and immortality. Meanwhile, their father obsesses the seas with his own belief in ever-lasting life, learning too late that his heart belongs on shore.

In Only and Ever This, a family must endure father loss, a mother’s grief, and roiling adolescence, slipping as it does into arcades, caves, and the young love for a ghostly girl up the street.

Only and Ever This is an adventurous tale with language and style that will speak to fans of literary fiction as well as surrealism while the plot and visual resonance will attract readers who enjoy family and relationship fiction.