Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien.The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic, Emily Croy Barker.Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer.
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson.The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Tom Rachman.The Reeducation of Cherry Truong, Aimee Phan.Pictures at an Exhibition, Sara Houghteling.The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami.The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill.Some are family searches, plumbing genealogies, faded pictures, and myths for a fuller sense of self through the past some are searches for artifacts so coveted they’d make Indiana Jones faint.įrom Mordor to Mumbai, from unmapped space and unknown planets to once-fled from hometowns between dimensions and into the grey areas of our memories out of the South toward hoped-for opportunities, and back to a South where equality is still denied down staircases that unwind into seeming infinity, and on the slow climb toward the American presidency into future landscapes we’d be wise to avoid, and toward a clearer vision of a past we can’t undo out of fairylands, toward the Emerald City, and back to the remnants of myths again, these books set their seekers down uncertain paths and transform everything in the course of the journey. These books are replete with tales of such epic quests, and include both fiction and non-fiction offerings. Unexpected elements prompt moves into the as-yet unknown, from where one never returns exactly as they left. A clue uncovered a task charged a revelation. When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her “real life” against the dangerous power of love and magic.įor lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series ( The Magicians and The Magician King) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy ( A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night).Transformations begin with a moment. And it will take her becoming Aruendiel’s student-and learning magic herself-to survive.
Her only real ally-and a reluctant one at that-is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Nora’s new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she’s transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty. Nora Fischer’s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world-where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive
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