"A well-woven tapestry of history, character, and charming mystery." -- Kirkus Reviews Today Show Winter Book Selection American Book Fest Best Book Awards: Fiction: LGBTQ - WINNERAmerican Book Fest Best Book Awards: Fiction: Fantasy - FinalistIn flu-ravaged 1918 Philadelphia, Fiora Vicente, the freshly orphaned and forward-thinking daughter of the local fortune teller, has goals. She has ambitions. But whe ...Täielik kirjeldus
"A well-woven tapestry of history, character, and charming mystery." -- Kirkus Reviews Today Show Winter Book Selection American Book Fest Best Book Awards: Fiction: LGBTQ - WINNERAmerican Book Fest Best Book Awards: Fiction: Fantasy - FinalistIn flu-ravaged 1918 Philadelphia, Fiora Vicente, the freshly orphaned and forward-thinking daughter of the local fortune teller, has goals. She has ambitions. But when faced with a future she hasn't planned, she has second thoughts--and casts her community into a stagnant bubble of time. Inside the bubble, life among Fiora's superstitious neighbors continues, but nothing progresses, swamped by a steady stream of unspent seconds. As the pressure builds Fiora realizes she must find the courage to collapse the bubble--or risk trapping her dreams in an unbearable, unyielding, and infinite Now.