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In a not-too-distant future dominated by political and social conservatism, a household of politcal outcasts in a midwestern Canadian city is turned upside down by the arrival of a humanoid alien infant whose coming is marked by fierce government surveillance. By the author of Black Wine. Reprint.
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Candas Jane Dorsey's first novel, the fantasy Black Wine, won three significant awards and got enthusiastic reviews across the United States and Canada. Now Dorsey returns with a literary SF parable about a woman named Morgan and her offbeat household. In the near future, when political and social conservatism dominate society, Morgan inherits a big, century-old mansion in a prairie city and moves there to rebuild her life. She fills the house with sexual misfits and political outcasts, in a sense, orphans like herself. But the final tenant is one she never could have imagined: an alien child.
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