it had been one of those splendid sights which we will never see on this planet. The walls as well as ceiling of the massive ballroom were of thick but transparent crystal. lots of many hundreds of colossal shells,—many of a deep pink, others of the grass green,—with blue hearth in them, stood in rows on all sides. These lighted up the whole sa

misfit Ricki Wilde moves to Harlem to open a flower shop wherever a mysterious stranger sets her earth ablaze.  by Catherynne Valente Catherynne Valente’s prose is actually a steady marvel, and her books are endlessly original. Palimpsest is a novel of linked stories of characters from different walks of everyday living who’ve all discovered