“With lyrical prose and deep stores of emotion, this grown-up fairy tale works on every level.” —Publishers Weekly starred review

“A peculiar but often profound piece of metafiction whose emotional landscape offers more riches than its physical one.” —Kirkus Reviews

More praise for the author

“Has an uncanny knack for taking the worst things that lurk in the shadows and weaving them into an absolute delight.”—Becky Chambers on Middlegame

“A mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy—a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll’s and C. S. Lewis’ classics”—NPR on Every Heart a Doorway

“One of the smartest writers around.”—Charlaine Harris on Every Heart a Doorway