The days are short the nights are for wild. As Nina runs across an alternate Philadelphia balanced on a knife's edge between celebration and catastrophe, through parades, worship houses, museums, hidden mansions, and the place she once called home, she's forced to confront her past in order to take charge of her own-and perhaps everyone's-future. One of the stories from the bestselling historical fiction Falco series. Before it's over, she will discover secret societies battling for power in an increasingly precarious world and become custodian of a horrifying secret-and the target of a mysterious hunter. Tonight, Nina will put on a dress of blackest black, and attend the biggest party of the year. Pick up this book and party like its SATURNALIA. But when she gets a chance call from Max, one of the Saturn Club's best-connected members and her last remaining friend, the favor he asks will plunge her back into the Club's wild solstice masquerade, on a mysterious errand she cannot say no to. Whether you’re pursuing the publication of your first book or your fifth, use the Small Presses database to research potential publishers, including submission guidelines, tips from the editors, contact information, and more. Appena tornato nellUrbe dopo un viaggio nelle Gallie, Publio Aurelio Stazio si trova coinvolto nei festeggiamenti dei Saturnalia, una sorta di rito carnevalesco dellantichità durante il quale i ruoli sociali si invertono: gli schiavi si trasformano. Like Thanksgiving or Halloween, Saturnalia has become a purely American holiday despite its pagan roots and nearly everyone, rich or poor, forgets their troubles for a moment.įor Nina, Saturnalia is simply a cruel reminder of the night that changed everything for her. GREYHOUND AMERICANS traverses a childhood and adolescence filled with loss, love, and complex exploration of. Since then, she's eked out a living by telling fortunes with her Saturn Club tarot deck, a solemn initiation gift that Nina always considered a gag but has turned out to be more useful than she could have ever imagined.įor most, the Saturnalia carnival marks a brief winter reprieve for the beleaguered people of the historic city, which is being eroded by extreme weather, a collapsing economy, and feverish summers-whose disease carrying mosquitos are perhaps the only thing one can count on.
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The Saturnalia carnival marks three years since Nina walked away from Philadelphia's elite Saturn Club-with its genteel debauchery, arcane pecking order, and winking interest in alchemy and the occult. The year 2137: Humans discover they’re not alone in the universe. "A heady mix of the most terrifying elements of our troubled past and inevitable future an eerie, propulsive novel." -Carmen Maria Machado Read 8 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers.
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