The splendid city by karen heuler5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Liberty itself is a dystopian fever-dream where “messengers”-vans that ring bells and have chickens with frying pans painted on the sides-careen down the streets, giving people items of great value and snatching citizens off the sidewalk, seemingly at random, all while strewing along it nougats of unspecified flavor and origin. These are heavy-hitting antecedents, but this book earns them, going all-in on its playful surreality and satirical teeth.Įleanor, a witch from New York, and Stan, her social-media-troll coworker whom she transformed into a cat, have been sent to Liberty (formerly Texas) to think about their mistakes and investigate the disappearance of a witch named Daria. Whimsical and biting, it reads a little bit like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and “A Modest Proposal” (1729) had a baby and then sent it to a seminar on Dadaism. ![]() When I started The Splendid City by Karen Heuler, I was struck, first and foremost, by its tone. ![]()
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