| "The essential Holly Phillips story begins like this: In a world that felt
too little, there lived a girl who saw too much."-Sean Stewart.
In the Palace of Repose is a collection of nine such stories, ranging from
the delightfully fantastic "In the Palace of Repose," to the delicately
horrific "One of the Hungry Ones," to the hauntingly literary "The Other
Grace." Here indeed are young women, and young men, who have seen too much,
and who have been abandoned to wrestle alone with the strange, the
wonderful, the terrifying. Some triumph, some tragically fail. Most struggle
on beyond the boundaries of their stories, carrying their wonders and
horrors into their lives, into their worlds - worlds, and lives, startlingly
like our own.
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