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Found Family, Forests, and Fantastical Storytelling from “In the Lives of Puppets” – Chicago Review of Books

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Found Family, Forests, and Fantastical Storytelling from “In the Lives of Puppets” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] With In the Lives of Puppets, Lambda Literary Award-winning TJ Klune offers speculative fiction and young adult readers a fresh new tale. By loosely adapting The Adventures of Pinnochio, Klune tells the endearing story of a father creating life under unorthodox circumstances and a boy on a dangerous journey to a far-off land and … Read more

A Fantastical and Mesmerizing Narrative in Yelena Moskovich’s “A Door Behind a Door” – Chicago Review of Books

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A Fantastical and Mesmerizing Narrative in Yelena Moskovich’s “A Door Behind a Door” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Yelena Moskovich’s third novel A Door Behind a Door is a phantasmagoria about immigration, death, and queer desire with a plot that defies easy description. It centers on a young immigrant in Milwaukee named Olga. When Olga was a baby back in the Soviet Union, a boy in her apartment building stabbed an old … Read more