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Psychic Mira Tejedor possesses unique talents that enable her to find anything and anyone, but now she must find a comatose boy wandering lost inside the labyrinth of his own mind. Thirteen-year-old Anthony Faircloth hasn't spoken a word in almost a month and with each passing day, his near catatonic…

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1 author picked The Mussorgsky Riddle as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book had the trippiest and most complex inner mind world I have ever experienced.

Moving into a literal world inside of a boy’s mind that has real-life consequences for the person who enters is astounding. It plays with the bounds of consciousness. It astounded me how the main character’s mind created a literal world and incorporated someone else into it so intuitively.

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