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- Author: Delilah S. Dawson
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- Genre: Domestic Thriller
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The modern world is severely lacking in magic, and those who crave it are at
a constant disadvantage because they are desperate and it’s in short supply.
Some places—amusement parks, country fairs, museums, old bookstores—can
temporarily fill the void, but there will always be people who check every
armoire for a door to Narnia, every rabbit hole for a road to Wonderland. One
such person is Ro, born Rosemary Dutton, age twenty-seven, whose life
imploded last year, leaving her an absolute wreck.
Ro has spent so much time deconstructing the great works of literature that
she has completely failed to live an adventure of her own. Now, finally finished
with her PhD at Columbia, and having published her thesis in book form with a
small press and secured an assistant professorship at the University of Georgia,
she is trying to create her own everyday magic. That’s why she has come to the
farmers’ market enlivening the tree-lined park just off campus. There is a
certain sorcery to such a market: rows of stalls and tents filled with homemade
cinnamon buns, leggy tomato plants, bear-shaped jars of wildflower honey,
vegetables still dusted with dirt, rosy peaches with raindrops trapped in their
fur.
This is Ro’s first visit, and she can feel the glitter in the air. This place feels
like Stardust and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Labyrinth had an orgy and
popped out a slightly bougie baby behind a baseball field. Sure, there was a cute
market near Books of Wonder back in the city, but there’s something
otherworldly about this place, with the sun filtering through ancient oaks and
butterflies billowing through the crowd. Ro is the kind of optimist who was
disappointed to discover that the only alchemy behind the hedonistic glory of a
handcraed Starbucks frappé is three pumps of mass-produced sugar syrup, and
she suspects that things here are more genuine somehow.
So far, she has a pint of strawberries, a loaf of bread, and a log of cheese
made from the milk of a goat named Belinda, according to the label. She’s been
in town only half a year and hasn’t made any friends yet, and is definitely not
ready to date again, but this market makes her feel like she’s out in the world,
doing things, hoping kismet will come calling. Most of the time, she is happy to
vacillate between home and classroom, feverishly researching her next book and
striving for a good word from her department head even though it’s only her
second semester.
She can get annoyingly hermetic and obsessive about her
work, but this charming bazar is making her feel like destiny is right around
the corner. Right here, right now, she wants to be the kind of woman who
carries a jute tote bag as the summer breeze blows through her long, loose hair,
the kind of woman who knows exactly what to wear and where to go and what
to say. She has always longed to be effortless—effortlessly cool, effortlessly
confident, effortlessly thin.
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