![]() ![]() Then, each of the girls tries to make contact with her own personal “Mercury Boy,” from an injured Union soldier in the Civil War to a charming pickpocket in New York City.Īt night, the girls visit their “forever boyfriends” in their dreams. They steal portraits of young men from a local college’s daguerreotype collection. Under Saskia’s guidance, the other girls try the experiment for themselves. ![]() Saskia soon shares her revelation with some female classmates. The hitch: she can see him only in her dreams. She is somehow able to visit the man in the daguerreotype: Robert Cornelius, a brilliant young inventor from the nineteenth century. When high schooler Saskia Brown plays around with a vial of liquid mercury, then touches a tattered old daguerreotype, she makes a startling discovery. ![]() Publisher Soho Press, August 2021 – a lovely YA mesmerizing story! ![]()
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