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When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from fairyland by the golden wind, he becomes a changeling—a human boy—in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than fairyland when seen through trollish eyes. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his troll nature and his changeling fate. But when he turns twelve, he stumbles upon a way back home, to a fairyland much changed from the one he remembers. Hawthorn finds himself at the center of a changeling revolution—until he comes face to face with a beautiful young scientiste with very big, very red assistant.
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About Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente is the author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, and the four books that followed it. She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, and Hugo awards, as well as the Prix Imaginales. Her works have also been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards.