Description: "Mary Modern has everything you look for in a book: smarts, style,and suspense. How often is it that you marvel at an author's literary skill while you feel that mad scramble to find out how it ends? It's a thrilling debut." --Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy "A strange, strangely beautiful, and beautifully accomplished novel. Science, history, personal identity, and literature go into the blender, and what comes out is a nearly perfect mix." --Ben Greenman, author of Superbad and A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both "What an inventive and testing book: Mary Modern may be the strangest package of fictional illusions that I've encountered for a long time, but Camille DeAngelis has pulled off every trick with a confident, extravagantflourish. She is a writer/magician whose debut novel is learned, engrossing, incessantly surprising, and extraordinarily touching." --Jim Crace, author of The Pesthouse and Being Dead From the Hardcover edition.

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