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Book SynopsisA genre-blending story of modern witchcraft, a police state and WTF characters, for fans of Alice Hoffman and Madeline Miller.
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In the state of Liberty, water is rationed at alarming prices, free speech is hardly without a cost, and Texas has just declared itself its own country. In this society, paranoia is well-suited because eyes and ears are all around, and they are judging. Always judging. This terrifying (and yet somehow vaguely familiar) terrain is explored via Eleanor – a young woman eagerly learning about the gifts of her magic through the support of her coven.
But being a white witch is not as easy as they portray it in the books, and she’s already been placed under ‘house arrest’ with a letch named Stan, a co-worker who wronged her in the past and now exists in the form of a cat. A talking cat who loves craft beers, picket lines, and duping and ‘shooting’ people.
Eleanor has no time for
Trade Review"Karen Heuler’s The Splendid City is a wonderful fabulation, both humorous and contemplative, about the desperate state of US politics and society."
"A thoroughly original and quirky novel."
"She's always a must read."
"the joy of The Splendid City lies in the quirky and all-embracing exuberance of Heuler's imagination."
"A delight from start to finish."
"How can anyone resist talking cats? I know I can’t."
"Pre-order this book immediately. It is a joy."
"A fun, whimsical, fantastical satire"
"Whimsical, satiric, and bursting with imagination"
"The dialogue is clever and the satire spot-on. The social commentary hits the nail on the head."
"A sharp, lively, funny contemporary fantasy with the feel of an up-to-date, more adult version of L Frank Baum’s Oz books."
"The Splendid City crafts a perfect quirk that ramps to wtf levels of genre-bending weirdness"
"a compelling book, compulsively readable."
"loved how cleverly and deftly Heuler balanced the absurd with the political."
