Come See the Fair
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An unforgettable story of magic, mediums, and séances set during the Chicago World’s Fair from the author of the National Book Award finalist The Way Back.
Twelve-year-old orphan Eva Root travels the country pretending to channel spirits at séances. Her audiences swear their loved ones have spoken to them from beyond the grave. This, of course, is impossible.
But one day, Eva experiences another impossibility: she hears a voice in her head telling her to come to the World’s Fair in Chicago. There, she meets a mysterious magician who needs her help to bring magic to life. But as their work progresses, Eva begins to suspect that the project's goals may not be as noble as they seem. And when tragedy strikes, Eva will have to reach beyond death itself to unravel the mystery of the magician's plan—before it’s too late.
From the author of the National Book Award finalist The Way Back comes a story of what to do when you get burned by the magic you’ve been looking for all your life.
“Gavriel Savit is an alchemist. Fusing history and magic with the shimmering ghost light of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, he has conjured a perfect potion of adventure and suspense. I was spellbound from the first page.” —Candace Fleming, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh and Murder Among Friends
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After Mrs. Blodgett adopts Eva Root from Miss Augusta Grandage's Home for Unwanted and Destitute Girls, the seven-year-old is quickly schooled in the ways of running séances, a craft to which she is well suited. Nearly seven years later, a séance in Ohio yields more than the usual when a voice in Eva's head tells her, "Come see the Fair!" Learning that Mrs. Blodgett plans to abandon her that night, Eva preemptively steals a wad of the cash she's helped to earn and boards a train to Chicago, en route befriending a talented artist named Henry Poole. Henry is traveling to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, summoned there by his own drawings, which have been mysteriously taking the form of Chicago Fair panoramas—and, strangely, of Eva, whom he's never met. There, a hidden, mysterious Pavilion of Magic, and enigmatic overseer Mr. Magister, quickly lure Eva, threatening to trap her and her abilities in a web of dark magic. Interweaving Chicago's fiery history with a sinister world's fair setting and a memorable heroine, Savit (The Way Back) sketches a complex, high-stakes take on magic's underpinnings and seductive powers. Characters read as white. Ages 10–up.
