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"This book is patient. Patient, detailed, deep, immersive, and enthralling. It's a story of intrigue and manipulation set in a world of intrigue and manipulation. A world modeled after the banking families of Renaissance Italy, their extra-governme..." Permalink

""Why did so much in life depend on who ate whom? It made the simplest things, like friendship, so tragically complicated." This is a gentle, nuanced, compelling story about love: love of self, love of friends, love of difference. About identity, ..." Permalink

"Marvelous! There's humor, madcap adventure, danger, oddball and outcast characters, an evil society of mad scientists, giant worms, etiquette school (danger), useful hermit crabs, and absurdity galore. And it's all presented with a narrative voic..." Permalink