I love the word "palimpsest". I like how it sounds and what it means. When I read Nymeth’s review of this book, and she was all, It reminded me of MirrorMask!, I knew I had to get it. Catherynne Valente‘s Palimpsest is about a city called Palimpsest, a sexually transmitted city – people have pieces of a map of Palimpsest, like tattoos, somewhere on their bodies, and when two people with the marks on them sleep together, they go to Palimpsest for the night. Like a dream, except that it isn’t a dream. The book is about four people who…
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