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★★★★☆ 3.95 • Goodreads

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Craved A Wrinkle in Time's cosmic misfit courage? Catherynne M. Valente hurls another headstrong girl through impossible realms in The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Portal-hopping rebels dismantle tyrannical fairy regimes
  • Whimsical philosophy for precocious misfit brains
  • Eccentric sidekicks guide w/ sarcasm & soul
  • Emotional grit trumps sanitized happily-ever-afters

If Meg Murry's tesseract leaps felt like permission to be brilliantly weird, September's wild careening through Fairyland delivers the same misfit manifesto with sharper teeth. Valente arms her headstrong heroine with wit instead of formulas, then drops her into tyrannical fairy bureaucracies where charm and grit dismantle oppression more thoroughly than any cosmic shortcuts.

This is countercultural escapism for bookish rebels who never believed in sanitized endings.

The quirky mentors—a loyal wyvern, a sarcastic marid—offer bohemian wisdom wrapped in barbs, guiding September through philosophical riddles that respect precocious intellects craving substance over syrup.

This is countercultural escapism for bookish rebels who never believed in sanitized endings.

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What Readers Are Saying

"This book is beautiful...it puts its hand around my heart." Patrick, Goodreads
"the level of creativity was astounding...you really do feel like you're standing there with the main character" Peter Topside, Goodreads
"gorgeous writing, fantastic ideas...the book came to utter life." Bradley, Goodreads

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