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Ciara
Feb 11, 2010 rated it really liked it
exquisite short story collections. like a russian angela carter. fabulous stuff, like twin ballerina sisters who are cursed by a jealous magician to become an enormously fat woman who must somehow make her way in the world without her thin ballerina beauty. or an orphaned young woman who is saved from being murdered by an apparition that looks like her dead mother. or a mysterious plague that wipes out an entire city & one family's attempts to survive it. not a lot of happy endings here, but def ...more
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