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A Hundred Thousand Worlds

✍ Scribed by Proehl, Bob

Book ID
109215442
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2016
Tongue
en-US
Weight
496 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780399562211

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✦ Synopsis

**"A work of wit and heart, A HUNDRED THOUSAND WORLDS is for anyone who craves a smart family saga. Especially one with superheroes. I loved it completely." -- Karen Joy Fowler
A winning debut about a mother and son on a cross-country road trip through the world of comic-cons, for readers who love the literary-meets-genre pleasures of Lev Grossman, Emily St. John Mandel, or Kelly Link.
**Valerie Torrey took her son Alex and fled Los Angeles six years ago--leaving both her role on an X-Files-ish TV show and her co-star husband after aspectacular tragedy blew their small family apart. Now Val must reunite 9-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York, Val making appearances at comic book conventions along the way.
As they travel west, encountering superheroes, monsters, time travelers, and robots, Val and Alex are drawn into the orbit of the comic-con regulars, from a hapless twenty-something illustrator to a lesbian...

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