Distilled from foul mushrooms by a cult of diabolists, those who drink it see terrible things-like the destruction of Long Island in fire and flood. What Ellie doesn't know is that this booze is special. So desperate that when wealthy strangers ask her to procure libations for an extravagant party Ellie sells them everything she has, including some booze she acquired under unusual circumstances.
It's dangerous work under Prohibition-independent operators like her are despised by federal agents and mobsters alike-but Ellie's brother was accepted to college and Ellie's desperate to see him go. (Nov.Summary "Amityville baywoman Ellie West fishes by day and bootlegs moonshine by night. Some elements of the plot are a touch predictable, but the overall effect is delightful. The portrayal of groups of normal people falling into mob violence and hatred of the other groups is genuinely unnerving, and Tanzer resists simplistic moral takes. Fin and Ellie make an appealing team as they work to figure out what’s wrong and stop it, and the depiction of Long Island is a fine example of nuanced, lovely landscape writing. Fin is out of her element in the endless parties of the Roaring ’20s, a situation only made worse by the nightmarish paranormal effects of the tainted liquor. One night, she inadvertently gets into an altercation with another sailor that ends in her acquiring some odd new bottles of moonshine those bottles end up at a party thrown by Delphine “Fin” Coulthead and her rich husband and friends. On Long Island in the 1920s, Ellie West does bootlegging by boat to help pay for her brother’s education.
Lovecraft, with, of course, chaotic results.
Tanzer’s charming, confident follow-up to Creatures of Will and Temper continues the conceit of drawing on famous literary source texts for character and plot material here, The Great Gatsby crashes into the works of H.P.
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