Today we are celebrating the release of Matthew Guinn’s novel The Resurrectionist in paperback! When I started working at Lemuria it was the very first book I read with the intention of selling it- so it had to ask myself not only how I felt about it but how I thought others would react to the story. It is a book of secrets. There are two kinds of secret: those that grow over time and those that diminish. The secrets that grow over time are not the big ones, not the powerful or horrible ones- they are the ones that people share in whispers at night until they grow into the daylight like weeds. Just ask the people working at UMMC, they’ll tell you it’s not so easy to erase a secret that hundreds of people know about.
The Resurrectionist does what we all wish would happen more often, it tells us the real back-story of a painful and embarrassing secret. Jumping between present day and the 19th century, Matt Guinn tells an amazing story on both sides of a dark history of a hospital that has to bend their morality to try to save lives. It begs the question: have we really changed as much as we pretend in the public eye; or is it the things we do behind closed doors that measure our progress? I’m certain I don’t know the answer- all I know is secrets and coincidences go hand in hand, so I leave you with a quote I read last night: “That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.” -Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
The keg is on ice and the man of the hour will start signing at 5PM. Free Dead Guy Ale. Come share a secret with us.
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