Fantasy
In the night garden
2006·496 pages
A girl with tales inked on her eyelids spins nested dark fairy stories for a prince in this lush, mythic fantasy.
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A girl with tales inked on her eyelids spins nested dark fairy stories for a prince in this lush, mythic fantasy.
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A Book of Wonders for Grown-Up ReadersEvery once in a great while a book comes along that reminds us of the magic spell that stories can cast over us--to dazzle, entertain, and enlighten. Welcome to the Arabian Nights for our time--a lush and fantastical epic guaranteed to spirit you away from the very first page....Secreted away in a garden, a lonely girl spins stories to warm a curious prince: peculiar feats and unspeakable fates that loop through each other and back again to meet in the tapes...
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Sexual content
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Sensual fairy-tale intimacy; sexual assault appears in nested tales
Violence & gore
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Deaths, revenge, animal cruelty, and dark fairy-tale violence across tales
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Gods, monks, and mythic spirituality recur through nested fairy tales
Magic & witchcraft
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Witches, shape-shifters, curses, and mythic magic drive every nested tale
Occult / demonology
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Girl shunned as demon-born; fantasy demon labels, not real-world occult
Political content
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Themes of power cost, vilified monsters, womanhood, and forgotten voices
Self-harm / suicide
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Brief self-harm content appears among the nested dark fairy tales
Abuse & suffering
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Slavery, sexual assault, animal cruelty, child death, and systemic cruelty
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