Book description
The city of Entralla - along with Gondal, Brobdingnag and the Emerald City - is not somewhere you are likely to have visited. Only one guidebook to the place exists, despite its historic landmarks and the considerable civic pride of its inhabitants.
Alva and Irva are identical twin sisters, and…
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I read this gorgeous, fanciful book in the days after my second child was born, confined to bed with the baby but exploring the imagined city of Entralla with twins Alva and Irva Dapp. This novel is a municipal guidebook, illustrated with photos of a model of Entralla, created by Carey, who is also a visual artist.
The fiction is that Irva built this model: wanting to know her city but terrified to leave the house, she instead constructs a miniature of it based on reports from her twin sister. I love miniatures and models, so the idea of a…
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