Carnival Magic and The Castle in the Mist
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With Australia ablaze, our writer recounts her escape from L.A.’s fires—and wonders what’s nextBy Amy Ephron
We don’t live in a glass house anymore. Out the windows, it no longer looks like Tuscany. We don’t hear the church bells from Mount Saint Mary’s at noon and at five o’clock. We no longer ...
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by Amy Ephron From Loose Diamonds ...and other things I've lost (and found) along the way
Excerpt published in the New York Times "T" Magazine
ALONE, TOGETHER —
The author, far left, enjoyed a moment to herself at a party in the 1970s.
The bubbly flowed, the diamonds too. For one good-time girl ... -
The Castle in the Mist has been nominated for a State Book ... -
In the tradition of Edward Eager and E.L. Konigsburg, a novel about the excitement—and the dangers—of wishing.
Tess and her brother, Max, are sent for the summer to their aunt’s sleepy village in the English countryside, where excitement is as rare as a good wifi signal. So when Tess ...
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by Amy Ephron
from VogueRarely (every 14 years or so), a super bloom erupts in Death Valley and the desert is briefly (carpeted would be too extreme) finely brushed with fields of purple, yellow, white, and pale pink wildflowers. Thanks to the almost El Niño, we’re having a ...
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Reading Amy Ephron’s new novel Carnival Magic feels like stepping into a different literary landscape entirely. Gone are the themes of extreme fantasy or acute realism that polarize YA novels in 2018, and in their place is a much softer, otherworldly take on childhood mystery, reminiscent of ...
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Ephron turns the notion of the good Samaritan on its head in a bauble of a tale about altruism gone horribly wrong.
—Publishers’ WeeklyInternational ...
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HARPER'S BAZAAR CALLS IT "A MUST READ"
"Her honest approach to her good and not-so-good relationships might be just the thing for anyone feeling sorry about themselves." – Morgan ...
