/24-7PressRelease/ - May 17, 2008 - Imagine you can smell sounds, taste colors, and hear shapes. This is what people with synesthesia can do, among other things. Most are born with it and think themselves perfectly common until they find others perceive the world in a far different fashion.
MIRACLE MYX (Kunati, May '08), a new mystery by Dave Diotalevi, explores the aftermath of a boy who suddenly acquires synesthesia through a near-death experience. The book follows an initial turmoil he transforms into abilities that break open the shocking 250-year-old origin of Miracle, Massachusetts.
"Years ago I read of a man with synesthesia who had a photographic memory," says Diotalevi, a nuclear physicist turned author. "I wondered how someone with the ability to recall absolutely every detail would perform in the middle of a mystery. MIRACLE MYX is my opportunity to show how Myx Amens first learns how to cope with and then wield ever-growing powers that are suddenly thrust upon him. As the bodies stack up along with the clues, Myx realizes he has to trust his perceptions to save him from lies, betrayal, and the loss of his own innocence."
Dr. Sean Day, president of the American Synesthesia Association, calls Myx Amens "an amusing and entertaining character ... realistic." Booklist wrote: MIRACLE MYX is "exceptional ... poetic ... wickedly funny, surprisingly moving."
How can Elbridge Sonnet, a man who disappeared 250 years ago, control the destinies of citizens in present-day Miracle, Massachusetts? He could have had a mystic vision; he could have witnessed miracles; he could have encoded a secret that had the potential to unleash dark desires and fanatical beliefs; he could have thought that secret safe forever, hidden in an intricate puzzle box.
But, Sonnet never foresaw a Myx Amens. Follow Myx for an unblinking forty-two hours as he pits his synesthetic brain against a past genius, his final follower, and a killer who rips tattoos from victims after neatly shooting them.
MIRACLE MYX (ISBN: 1601641559; Kunati Hardcover, 288 pages; $24.95) is available at bookstores and online. Learn more at http://DaveWritesBooks.com.
Dave Diotalevi lives in a town much like Miracle in central Massachusetts. He is also the author of GOD'S QUESTIONS, a published poet, and has written for national magazines.
Print photos here: http://DaveWritesBooks.com/media.html
Watch the book trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9kaWeWekwQ#
http://wheresmyx.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/davediotalevi
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