It’s sometime in the future in a world where magical powers and time machines are nothing out of the ordinary. Childhood friends Patricia and Laurence have grown up and are living in San Francisco. Patricia has graduated from a hidden academy for the world’s magically gifted and Laurence is an engineering genius. However, both will soon come to realize the force that is determined to bring them together, a force that will either save the planet that is falling apart around them or drag it further into oblivion.
NPR’s Jason Heller says it’s “full of quirkiness and playful detail [. . .] but there’s an overwhelming depth and poignancy to its virtuoso ending.” Check out All the Birds in the Sky from the Popular Collection today.