![]() ![]() ![]() Reading as much as I do for review and analysis, I'm always grateful for books that captivate me to the point that I forget my surroundings. Vellitt Boe - 55 years old and certain her adventure-laden travelling days are behind her - must find Clarie and bring her back before disaster strikes her chosen home. Clarie Jurat is Vellitt's best pupil, and also, as it happens, the grand-daughter of a sleeping god when she runs away with a dreamer from the waking world, she risks bringing his wrath down on Ulthar and everything bordering it. In this shifting, inconstant, changeable place, Boe is Professor of Mathematics at Ulthar Women's College, a prestigious but precariously positioned school, the success of which depends on its students and faculty being discreet, capable, and knowing their place. Everything is subject to the whims of petty gods, loving, warring, razing whole nations for a lark. In the world of Vellitt Boe everything has meaning, from the numbered stars to visions in flame. ![]() I have just put down The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe and it is dark outside, a rush of wind constant as surf, and I find myself wondering if the stars will be uncountable millions or if there will be only ninety-seven of them studding a thickly textured sky. I write this as if surfacing from deep water, or looking up to find a bright world dimmed around me. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe Author Kij Johnson ![]()
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