The Onion Girl

In his stunning novels of magic and danger in the modern world, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life: Newford, where magic lights the dark streets, myths walk clothed in modern shapes, and a broad cast of extraordinary people work to keep the whole world turning. At the center of it all stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair and paintsplattered jeans, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in the citys shadows. Now, at last, de Lint tells Jillys own story; for behind the painters fey charm lies a dark secret that shes labored to forget. Im the onion girl, Jilly Coppercorn says. Pull back the layers of my life, and you wont find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl. Shes very, very good at runningbut the past has come to claim her now.