The Splendid City

“Karen Heuler’s The Splendid City is a wonderful fabulation, both humorous and contemplative, about the desperate state of US politics and society.”“A thoroughly original and quirky novel.”“She’s always a must read.”“the joy of The Splendid City lies in the quirky and all-embracing exuberance of Heuler’s imagination.”“A delight from start to finish.”“How can anyone resist talking cats? I know I can’t.”“Pre-order this book immediately. It is a joy.”“A fun, whimsical, fantastical satire”“Whimsical, satiric, and bursting with imagination”“The dialogue is clever and the satire spot-on. The social commentary hits the nail on the head.”“A sharp, lively, funny contemporary fantasy with the feel of an up-to-date, more adult version of L Frank Baum’s Oz books.”“The Splendid City crafts a perfect quirk that ramps to wtf levels of genre-bending weirdness”“a compelling book, compulsively readable.”“loved how cleverly and deftly Heuler balanced the absurd with the political.”

KAREN HEULER is a literary sci-fi/fantasy author. Her stories have appeared in over a hundred literary and speculative magazines and anthologies such as Conjunctions to Tin House and Weird Tales. She has received an O. Henry award, been a finalist for the Iowa short fiction award, the Bellwether award, the Shirley Jackson award for short fiction, among others. She has published four novels, four story collections and a novella. She also teaches fiction writing at NYU’s School of Professional Studies.

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