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Walton treats reading itself as a formative power while keeping the boundary between trauma, perception, and magic delicately open.
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Among Others
Jo Walton2011 selection · Science fiction & fantasy
Among Others
After a magical confrontation leaves her disabled and her twin dead, Welsh teenager Morwenna is sent to an English boarding school. Her diary records encounters with fairies, an estranged family, and the science-fiction books through which she finds intellectual companionship.
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You love books about readers, quiet magic, and resilient outsiders.
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