![]() The story centers on three lovable characters: Perry Graves - failed magician and the Perilous of the title - his little sister Brendy, who is 3’6” of solid attitude, and Peaches, the cute girl who lives in the haunted house a few doors down, possesses super-strength, and disappears for weeks at a time, looking for her long-lost father. The strangest - and perhaps most dangerous - of all of the unusual phenomena are songs that, under the right conditions, take on a sentient, physical form. ![]() Some bars suddenly appear, but only if you’re an artist. ![]() There are entire neighborhoods populated by the dead or ideas that the city wants to keep alive. Jennings’ New Orleans has voodoo zombies, piano-playing spirits, giant talking nutria, flying streetcars, schools of magic named after jazz musicians, haints, trees that grow mardi gras beads, and enchanted graffiti. He spent ten years applying his imagination to this novel. ![]() ![]() The author Alex Jennings isn’t from New Orleans, but, as the saying goes, he got there as soon as he could - because a spirit visited him in a dream and told him to make it his home. The New Orleans of this unputdownable novel is even more fantastical. Real-life New Orleans is a pretty magical place where it feels as though the veil between this world and the next is as transparent as gossamer. ![]()
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