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The Onion Girl

Author:	Charles de Lint
Publisher:	Tor, 2001
Series:	Newford: Book 9
0. Make a Joyful Noise 0. Our Lady of the Harbour 0. Paperjack 0. Seven Wild Sisters 0. Pity the Monsters 0. The Conjure Man 0. Bridges 0. Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair 0. The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep 0. A Circle of Cats 0. Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Café 0. Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night 1. The Dreaming Place 2. Dreams Underfoot 3. Memory & Dream 4. The Ivory and the Horn 5. Trader 6. Someplace to Be Flying 7. Moonlight and Vines 8. Forests of the Heart 9. The Onion Girl 10. Tapping the Dream Tree 11. Spirits in the Wires 12. Medicine Road 13. The Blue Girl 14. Widdershins 15. Promises to Keep 16. Little (Grrl) Lost 17. Dingo 18. Muse and Reverie 19. Newford Stories: Crow Girls 20. The Wind in His Heart
Book Type:	Novel
Genre:	Fantasy
Sub-Genre Tags:	Contemporary Fantasy Mythic Fiction (Fantasy)
Awards:	2002 WFA Nominated
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Synopsis

In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary and affecting people work to keep the whole world turning.

At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips--Jilly, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in the city's shadows. Now, at last, de Lint tells Jilly's own story...for behind the painter's fey charm lies a dark secret and a past she's labored to forget. And that past is coming to claim her now.

"I'm the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. "Pull back the layers of my life, and you won't find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl." She's very, very good at running. But life has just forced Jilly to stop.

Excerpt

Jilly

Newford, April 1999

Once upon a time...

I don't know what makes me turn. Some sixth sense, prickling the hairs at the nape of my neck, I guess. I see the headlights. They fill my world and I feel like a deer, trapped in their glare. I can't move. The car starts to swerve away from me, but it's already too late.

It's weird how everything falls into slow motion. There seems to be time to do anything and everything, and yet no time at all. I wait for my life to flash before my eyes, but all I get is those headlights bearing down on me.

There's the squeal of tires.

A rush of wind in my ears.

And then the impact.

Copyright © 2001 by Charles de Lint

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