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I had the great pleasure of recording Reading Envy Podcast 077: No One Messes With a Wolf with the voracious reader @shawnmooney ... Not even an earthquake can stop us! http://tinyurl.com/ReadingEnvy077

So there's this smart-alecky grade school teacher drinking a cup of tea when he sees a Chinese family on board a ship. In his teacup. After much head-shaking, he writes a short story sparked by the image. Once it's published, an Asian woman bangs on his door demanding to know what happened next to her uncle, the little boy in the image and the story. Huh, he asked. As did I. As will you. It goes wackily and wonderfully from there. A tour de force.

Ok, Lucy, you've swept me off my feet at first sight!

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The recent review by @LastSplash really seized my attention, so here is my very own copy. How about that cover, hey? This one I have to start reading within a matter of days… I don't know why. I just do.

@LastSplash just reviewed this. Glowingly. I'd never heard of it: something about her review, the synopsis, and the cover has seized me fiercely!

This is a gorgeous read, and a noteworthy contribution to the magical realism canon. Peregrine, a writer and grade school teacher in San Francisco, is overtaken by an irrepressible writing streak as his city is subjected to day after day of torrential downpour. He submits bits and pieces of his latest work to a mysterious literary magazine and is subsequently accused of plagiarizing the family history of an irate woman whom he's never met before.