Spectacular. Nona the Ninth meets Waterwold. The day I read a Valente book I don’t like is the day the sky turns neon green and cats sing opera. I really appreciated the core project here, the truth Tetley sees and does everything to preserve. Her love for her world is the beauty in the grief of a disappeared past, and is an important reminder that we live in the world we live in, and wanting another one is fruitless if we don’t do what we must to make it.