I listened to this excellent short story collection as an audio book. Each of the 10 stories is read by a different narrator, which gives the collection as a whole the feeling of a world populated with related but extremely unique voices. The opening story, "The Summer People", introduces the level of magical realism that each story includes. In it a high school girl in a rural North Carolina town cuts class to tend to a house inhabited by chaotic Fey. "The Valley of the Girls" takes place in a valley of modern day pyramids, built by the super wealthy for their bored teenage offspring who party and hook up amid the rooms of offerings. In "The New Boyfriend" Emmy jealously watches her best friend unwrap the birthday present she most desires- a life sized robot boyfriend. Her friend already has two others boyfriend dolls. Emmy wonders, why can't she steal the affections of just this one? I loved how these stories felt like opening up new pockets of possibility, new corners of strangeness in a world so similar to the one we inhabit. Reading this book made me feel like magic might be going on all around me- around any corner, in some place I just haven't yet looked.