{"id":33508,"date":"2018-11-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=33508"},"modified":"2018-11-07T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T16:12:17","slug":"spoonbenders-by-daryl-gregory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/spoonbenders-by-daryl-gregory\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoonbenders<\/I> by Daryl Gregory"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What would you do if one day you realized that all the stories your family has told you throughout the years are actually true? Matty is\u00a0just now realizing that the crazy stories\u00a0he’s\u00a0heard are really true and\u00a0not just the ramblings\u00a0of his upset uncle railing against the government.<\/p>\n

Spoonbenders<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Daryl Gregory tells the story of the amazing Tellemachus family,\u00a0a group\u00a0of psychics whose powers span generations. Three generations have now descended on one town, sharing secrets, houses, and jobs. The lives they have built together are now starting to crumble, thanks to actions sent in motion many, many years ago by the patriarch of the family, Teddy.<\/p>\n

Teddy Telemachus met young Maureen when the two were at a college signing up for an experimental study. Fascinated by her good looks and psychic powers, Teddy made it his mission to get to know her better. Flash forward to the mid-1970s. Teddy and Maureen are married with\u00a0three children in tow: Irene, Frankie, and Buddy. The Telemachus family is famous! They’re known on the talk show and late-night television circuit for performing tricks and feats that no one can understand. Those Telemachus people must be magic! Teddy is a conman with no actual magical talent, Maureen can astral project, Irene can detect lies, Frankie is telekinetic, and Buddy is clairvoyant. Teddy clearly knows how to work a situation to get what he wants and uses that to provide for his family.<\/p>\n

Late one night on a talk show, the Telemachus family is faced with a skeptic whose only goal is to discredit their entire way of life. Teddy believes that after they prove this well-known skeptic\u00a0wrong, the family will be set for life. Things don’t go to plan though. The magic fails to happen and the family is destroyed. Forced to go into hiding, they soon find themselves living in Chicago trying to rebuild the family name. None of the grandchildren have shown powers yet, at least that’s what Teddy tells the skeptic who keeps showing up and the CIA agents at the door. When one of his children gets involved with the mafia, Teddy discovers secrets running through the family that he wishes didn’t exist. One of these secrets: Irene’s son, Matty, has some Telemachus magic running through his veins. Fighting to stay alive, the Telemachus family realizes that they have to set aside their petty issues and come together to fend off the CIA, mafia, and skeptic threats knocking at the door. Is it too late? Only Buddy knows the answer to that and he’s not talking. You’ll just have to read and see for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What would you do if one day you realized that all the stories your family has told you throughout the years are actually true? Matty is\u00a0just now realizing that the crazy stories\u00a0he’s\u00a0heard are really true and\u00a0not just the ramblings\u00a0of his upset uncle railing against the government. Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,10,1,8],"tags":[1323,1331,3243,4703,743,4701,4171,2790,3276,4702],"class_list":["post-33508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-cia","tag-cold-war","tag-government","tag-mafia","tag-magic","tag-magician","tag-mechanic","tag-psychic","tag-spy","tag-talk-show"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-8Is","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33508"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33597,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33508\/revisions\/33597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}