2026 Locus Award for Best Collection (finalist)
Praise for this book
"Reading McKillip is the closest you will come to entering a waking dream." - Leigh Bardugo
"Patricia McKillip is indeed essential. If you want to read the very best fantastical fiction that has ever been written, you have to include McKillip on your list." - Theodora Goss
"McKillip's stories are as stately, luminous and tightly woven as figures in the margins of an illuminated manuscript and as full of secrets trembling on the edge of knowing." - Kathleen Jennings
"Patricia McKillip is the single writer whose work I treasure above all others. I re-read her books again and again and learn something new from them each time. She is a modern master of enchantment." - Terri Windling
"Patricia McKillip is indeed essential. If you want to read the very best fantastical fiction that has ever been written, you have to include McKillip on your list." - Theodora Goss
"McKillip's stories are as stately, luminous and tightly woven as figures in the margins of an illuminated manuscript and as full of secrets trembling on the edge of knowing." - Kathleen Jennings
"Patricia McKillip is the single writer whose work I treasure above all others. I re-read her books again and again and learn something new from them each time. She is a modern master of enchantment." - Terri Windling
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