The Confabulist by Steven Galloway is a fictionalized story of Harry Houdini and a man named Martin Strauss. The question what is real and what is an illusion lies at the heart of this book. The book has a magical quality about it and a circular approach weaving past and present and reality and illusion to the point that the lines between them are blurred.

Read my complete review at: http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2014/05/the-confabulist-novel.html

*** Reviewed based on a publisher’s galley received through NetGalley ***