CURIOSITIES-A NEW YORK SIDESHOW

Curiosities – A New York Sideshow  unfolds in the heart of a gritty, yet vividly painted New York, a city where every corner holds secrets and every shadow hints at hidden lives. "Curiosities" delves into the intricate dynamics of human resilience and the complex interplay of relationships burdened by trauma, hope, and the longing for connection. At its core, the story examines the societal struggles of outcasts, embodied through its protagonist, Alice, and her interactions with those who inhabit the periphery of society. 

As a paraplegic, twenty-year-old Alice Needham, she faces emotional and physical abuse, seen as an oddity in her confined world. She manages a failing basement shop called Curiosities in Manhattan's East Village, selling unwanted second-hand items. Limited by leg braces and crutches, Alice sketches and paints the unique appearances of people she glimpses from her shop window.

Her life includes peculiar figures like her large mother Inge, her small father Bruce, her loyal friends Moses Drury and Hank Bullard, and her eccentric neighbor Mrs. McKinstry. Alice’s world changes dramatically when she becomes involved with a homeless man she believes to be a Good Samaritan, leading to unexpected events that alter her life forever.

Author's Note: I've always felt that stories primarily in one main location have an intimacy that draws the reader like no other. They have an unimpeded, raw vantage point where extraneous storytelling trappings are scraped away, leaving only naked truth…with no place to hide. Curiosities - A New York Sideshow is such a novel.

Rob Kircher is a consistent 5-Star reviewed psychological suspense author.

Copyright Robert W. Kircher 2024. All rights reserved 

As a writer, I am naturally curious…always wondering why people do what they do. What motivates them to act in certain ways, to think so differently? Is it simply learned behaviors from early development and later influential contacts and situations that arose? Or, in the case of Rosa and Julian Lowenstein, could their actions have been triggered and indelibly instilled before birth?
 

The incredible advancements in medical research suggest that it is entirely plausible for sophisticated intelligence to have existed within Rosa and Julian's fetuses long before the traditionally held twenty-eighth week of pregnancy and the very real plausibility that awareness of each other may have occurred at their moment of conception. Even more astonishing, it is entirely reasonable to think that Rosa and Julian's fetuses had the means to alter selective elements within their predetermined genetic paths through the development of acute telepathic abilities.

Villa Lipari-A Naples Love Story is an intense psychological suspense novel set within the affluent backdrop of Port Royal, Naples, Florida, chronicling Rosa and Julian Lowenstein's extraordinary telepathic powers as fraternal twins and their most unimaginable love-hate relationship. It pries open normalcy and exposes a most competitive underside that entraps their wealthy South American father and his blue-blood trophy wife in their invasive and traumatic psychological battle for survival.

I've always felt that stories primarily in one main location have an intimacy that draws the reader like no other. They have an unimpeded, raw vantage point where extraneous storytelling trappings are scraped away, leaving only naked truth…with no place to hide. Villa Lipari-A Naples Love Story is such a novel. 

Rob Kircher is a consistent 5-Star reviewed psychological suspense author.

Copyright Robert W. Kircher 2024. All rights reserved