乳动奇蹟

 讲述美国西部在南北战争15年间的多方面扩张及聚居，这段史诗般的旅程充满了危险和阴谋。

 一对年幼的兄弟跟家人一起从大城市搬到偏远小镇，却发现新家并不单纯。他们能否与新朋友们一起解开家中的险恶谜团？

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

1990年代末，六口之家迁居温哥华岛新居。幼女萨沙的视角中，家庭裂痕渐显——当长子杰里米日益危险的行径撕裂平静，这场始于海岸的新生，终成困于蓝鹭沼泽的家族寓言。