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Jon Berkeley
The Palace of Laughter
Simon and Schuster (413 pages) 9781416910718
After a strangely lulling opening comes a somewhat different and gripping story about Miles Wednesday, an orphan who lives in a barrel. His life is disrupted when an odd circus visits and he rescues a small girl with wings, leading into a long, hazardous quest. There's a large cast of characters. The humans vary from a lady with an abundance of cats to a gang of children gone wild; then there's a tiger, a caged beast, a couple of angels and more. The style is witty and becomes quite poetic in places but the intriguing progress of the story carries all before it.