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Someplace to Be Flying

By: Charles de Lint
Narrated by: Kate Reading
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Lily is a photojournalist in search of the “animal people” who supposedly haunt the city’s darkest slums. Hank is a slumdweller who knows the bad streets all too well. One night, in a brutal incident, their two lives collide - uptown Lily and downtown Hank, each with a quest and a role to play in the secret drama of the city’s oldest inhabitants.

For the animal people walk among us. Native Americans call them the First People, but they have never left, and they claim the city for their own.

Not only have Hank and Lily stumbled onto a secret, they’ve stumbled into a war. And in this battle for the city’s soul, nothing is quite as it appears.

©1998 Charles de Lint (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing
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A favorite

Definitely one of my very favorite magical realism books! My third reading. I definitely recommend.

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It touches a part of your soul

This has been the best book to date from this wonderful author. It touches a part of your soul and leaves you smiling . I can’t say enough how this was exactly the book I needed to hear at this point of my life. It gives you a taste of hope that lingers on your tongue long after the story is over.Can’t say enough good things about this story!

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Memorable and insightful

Beautiful story wrapped up in a mythic fantasy wrapping. I will return to this world.

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Probably my favourite book of all time

I must've read this book a dozen times and this year with winter closing in and hot tea and video game weather coming on, nothing is bettee than resting my eyes while someone tells me this story all over again.

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Excellent

This is one of de Lint’s best books. I am alway hungry for more. Writing as art!

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Absolutely magical!

This has always been my favorite book by Charles deLint. I’ve bought so man copies over the years because I lend my book out and it never comes back. I’m thrilled the audio is available now. I really enjoyed listening to the narrators voice. Very calming and she did the different characters wonderfully. I highly recommend this author, he was writing urban fantasy before it was even a “thing”

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Not Just About Magic

This is not just a book about magic. It *is* magic.
Perfectly balanced with amazing characters, I would call it the best of his books I have experienced to date (maybe 8-10). But truth be told, his characters have always enchanted me, and I would lessen any of them by lifting this novel above the rest.
I cannot recommend it highly enough, and look forward to many revisits with appropriate time in between.

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