![]() Francesca Lia Block’s hyper-bright candy-colored Los Angeles is a character in itself: LA as a starlet with collagen-puffed lips the Valley as her pre-teen lip-glossed sister New York as a fiery red-headed cousin in killer heels. David Almond’s Black Middens his caves and coal mines his dusty, cobwebbed garden sheds. It’s something about a sense of space and place that’s almost alive. I grew up with David Almond’s odd and introverted dreamers, Francesca Lia Block’s fairy girls and goat guys and Alice Hoffman’s practical witches and felt so strongly for these extraordinary characters in ordinary places. ![]() ![]() A lot of people talk about magic realism in Latin American literature and it’s impossible not to be bowled over by Isabelle Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but what made me a devout disciple of magic realism was young adult fiction. It’s something about the mix of magic and metaphor that makes it so translatable to adolescence it’s easy to get lost in anything dreamy and wild. ![]() As a teenager, I spent more time in the woods than out, which gave me dappled skin in certain lights and an incurable attraction to magic realism. I’ve always been the kind of person who’s a little bit in danger of getting lost in the woods. We are kicking things off with debut author Moira Fowley-Doyle, who shares her love of magical realism and how that relates to her novel, The Accident Season. The Books in Bloom team is excited to launch a new series of guest posts in which we invite authors and illustrators to tell us about their work. ![]()
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