Description: Brazen, baroque, The Kingdom of Little Wounds plots coordinates of history, fever, and magic in such a way that each is occasionally disguised as the other. However, there's no disguising Susann Cokal's immediate rise to eminence as a pantocrator of new realms. I lived in her controversial kingdom for only a week, but I suspect and hope I shall never recover. -Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and What-the-Dickens There are deep and shallow reading experiences; this is a deep reading experience. There is nothing like it, though the fossil record flashes all kinds of petticoat. (Sigrid Undset. Margaret Atwood.) Elegant, complex, and sharp as a needle. -Blythe Woolston, winner of the William Morris Prize and author of Black Helicopters An epic, mercurial tale of astounding beauty, power, and madness. -Gigi Amateau, author of Claiming Georgia Tate Complex and carefully crafted -- mesmerizing. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) [T]he novel's ... brutality, eloquence, and scope are a breathtaking combination. -Publishers Weekly (starred review) This novel is distinctive in thought and elocution, but it is also dense and full of adult content. -School Library Journal (starred review)

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