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Sep 18 2021

Fletcher and Zenobia by Victoria Chess and Edward Gorey

Fletcher, alone

I don’t have all that much to say about Fletcher and Zenobia except that reading it makes me very happy, every time. It hits just the right note of whimsy without being twee. It’s mildly melancholy at the beginning, then enlivened, then worrisome again, and then everything is pleasantly resolved at the end. What more …

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