Like a drunken but unforgettable one-night stand between Jay McInerny’s Bright Lights, Big City, and Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, Tara Isabella Burton’s Here In Avalon rips up the map of genre fiction, breaking walls and blurring boundaries that normally keep romance, thriller, fantasy, and literary fiction safely separated. The result is a bittersweet, romantic ride, but also a work that inspires us to think more deeply about the very nature of the genres we enjoy, to question, in effect, the genre of our own dreams and desires, and the writerly magic inherent in all fiction.
All writers are tricksters.
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