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There is a door in this darkness / by Kristin Cashore.

by Cashore, Kristin.

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Dutton Books, 2024.

Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction

Psychic trauma -- Fiction

Depression, Mental -- Fiction

Magic -- Fiction

9780803739994 (hc.)

375 p. ; 22 cm.

With the help of bizarre messages that keep appearing in her life, teenage Wilhelmina tries to overcome grief and depression brought on by the national trauma of 2016-2020 and the loss of her beloved aunt.

Wilhelmina Hart is part of the infamous class of 2020. Her high school years began with a shocking presidential election and ended with a pandemic. In the midst of this global turmoil, she also lost one of her beloved aunts, a loss she still feels keenly. Having deferred college, Wilhelmina now lives in limbo she can see no way out of, like so many of her peers. WIlhelmina's personal darkness would be unbearable (especially with another moumental election looming) but for the inexplicable and seemingly magical cues that have begun to intrude on her life -- flashes of bizarre, ecstatic whimsy that seem to add up to a message she can't quite grasp. But something tells her she should follow their lead. Maybe a trail of elephants, birds, angels, and stale doughnuts will lead Wilhelmina to a door?

Magic realism (Literature)

Social problem fiction

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