![]() ![]() Water is rationed, essential commodities like cheese, milk, and toilet paper are scarce, Google has been replaced with “Wiggle,” and people are randomly grabbed off the streets. They both discover, however, that there’s something decidedly odd and rotten about the newly minted sovereign state. As punishment for acting so rashly, Eleanor is sent with Stan by her coven to Texas, now known as Liberty since it seceded from America, to search for a missing witch. Stan’s awful treatment of his co-worker (the extent of which is kept from us until much later in the novel) sees Eleanor, fuelled by anger and revenge, turn Stan into a cat. He was once a human, working in a gift store in New York alongside a fledgling witch named Eleanor. Karen Heuler’s fifth novel, The Splendid City, begins with a human-sized talking cat, wearing a bow-tie and a fanny pack, shooting a woman in the arm over a disagreement about mushroom roots and the internet. ![]()
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