Much of The Hidden Palace was written and edited in 2020, a year when all normalcy and routine were thrown out the window. If this book succeeds at all in its finished form, it’s in no small part thanks to my husband, who took over the household and our kids’ distance learning while I sequestered myself with the manuscript. Kareem, first and best reader of my heart, I am forever grateful for you.
About the Author
HELENE WECKER’s debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni, was awarded the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and was nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award. A Midwest native, she holds a BA in English from Carleton College and an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Joyland and Catamaran, as well as in the fantasy anthology The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and children.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Cover photograph by McKim, Mead & White, ca. 1910
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FIRST EDITION
Digital Edition JUNE 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-246874-1
Version 04212021
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-246871-0
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