![]() Nancy Whitman, a willowy teen with black-and-white-streaked hair and an eerie air about her, is the latest admission to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, a boarding school run by the enigmatic Ms. Tight and tautly told, Every Heart grabs one of speculative fiction's most enduring tropes - the portal fantasy, where a person slips from the real world into a magical realm somewhere beyond - and wrings it for all the poignancy, dark humor, and head-spinning twists it can get. Rather, she's doubled down - and in half the number of pages. ![]() That hasn't changed in her new novella, Every Heart a Doorway. ![]() Seanan McGuire's award-winning novels and short stories have been testing the parameters of genre fiction for years now, but always with a deep love of horror and fantasy. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Every Heart a Doorway Author Seanan McGuire ![]()
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