About the Book
World Fantasy Award 2001.
Sean Stewart's previous novel, Mockingbird, was selected as a Notable
Book of the Year by the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, and
one of the Best Fantasy Novels of the Year by Locus. Now in his most
stunning novel yet, one of the most critically acclaimed fantasy
writers of our time takes readers to Galveston – an island uprooted, and
uplifted, by magic...
Galveston had been baptized twice. Once
by water in the fall of 1900. Again by magic during Mardi Gras, 2004.
Creatures were born of survivors' joy and sufferers' pain: scorpions
the size of dogs, the Crying Clown, the Widow who ate her victims. And
the Island of Galveston would forever be divided – between the real city
and a city locked in a sort of constant Carnival, an endless Mardi
Gras...