Was: a novel Collections has been hiding from the

has been hiding from the world in an old one-room schoolhouse for several years

She would love to focus on the charming fellow grad student she meets at a party and her friendships with a circle of similarly floundering twenty-somethings

spiritual skepticism

Positive obsession is dangerous

Nyandoro was born the favorite

Was: a novel Collections has been hiding from the"A moving lament for lost childhoods and an eloquent tribute to the enduring power of art."The New York Times Was is a haunting novel which explores the lives of characters intertwined with The Wizard of Oz: the real Dorothy Gale; Judy Garlands unhappy fame; and Jonathan, a dying actor, and his therapist, whose work at an asylum unwittingly intersects with the Yellow Brick Road. Geoff Ryman is the author of The King's Last Song, Air, Him, 253, The