Many Kingdoms

Lawrence Varick is lost in a village whose language he cannot understand—until a beautiful stranger tells him the unsettling truth: “we are not here—really.”

A practical young New Yorker goes to sleep in an Adirondack club-house and wakes, in a dream, beneath the red roofs of a foreign town. The crowds cannot see him; he cannot make sense of their speech. Then a poised, sympathetic woman appears, and Varick’s bafflement gives way to a feeling he has never known. He wakes alone, certain it was only a dream—until nearly a year later, on a winter night in the city, the village returns, and so does she. What does this strange meeting mean beyond the dream?

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