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Green Music

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by Ursula Pflug

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GENRE:   Magical Realism   Literary Fiction   Fantasy / Contemporary   Women's Fiction   Science Fiction / General Amazon.com Amazon.ca Paperback: ISBN: 9781895836752 Trade Paperback 5.5" X 8.5" $16.95 US 232 pages BN: 3046 Hardback: ISBN: 9781895836776 Hard Cover 6.0" X 9.0" $21.95 US 232 pages BN: 3047 BISAC:   FIC061000   FIC019000   FIC009010   FIC044000   FIC028000 Wholesale / Ingram:   Ingram i-Page

Green Music A luminous slipstream odyssey between grief, art, and otherworldly seas When a Toronto artist is unmoored by loss, a Great Lakes mariner’s uncanny tales crack the city open—and a door swings wide onto a medieval, tropical paradise where sea-turtles and humans share an ancient bond. Crossing from gritty studios and streetlight nights into a lush archipelago of living myth, she must navigate memory, desire, and the perilous music that calls her name. In her debut novel, acclaimed Canadian author Ursula Pflug blends psychological insight with glimmering fabulism to create a journey that feels like lucid dreaming: intimate, disorienting, and ultimately transformative. Fans of Margaret Atwood’s speculative bends and Murakami’s dream logic will find themselves swept into a tide both tender and strange. Why you’ll love it Urban realism meets living myth: From Toronto’s studio district to a turtle-human archipelago, the novel fuses the everyday with the uncanny in seamless, shimmering prose. Emotionally resonant quest: A grieving artist’s voyage becomes a meditation on making, meaning, and the fragile ecologies of love and place. Canadian slipstream classic: Pflug’s first novel established her as a distinctive voice in modern speculative literature—elegant, intimate, and boldly imaginative. Critical praise: “A wonderful, magical, delight you just have to experience for yourself.” — SFRevu Perfect for readers who enjoy Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, and the dream-border crossings of Haruki Murakami. (Comparative positioning; not author endorsements.) About Ursula Pflug Ursula Pflug is an award-winning Canadian writer of speculative and literary short fiction published frequently in Canada, the U.S., the U.K. Her brilliant, evocative stories can be found in many of the Tesseracts anthologies. Ms. Pflug has also written for stage, film and television, including commissioned historical dramas.[MORE] Praise: "Green Music is not really a book about escaping the real world for a sun-soaked romantic fallacy populated by talking turtles. It is a book about surviving. It is a book about having a dream in our hearts and not giving in to the rat race, to the endless chink of money and rumble of traffic." -Cheryl Morgan - Emerald City (Read this review) "Pflug does a wonderful job of exploring the concept that everyone has a twin somewhere, whether turtle or human. The achievement of a twosome, through meeting to friendship and affection to loss, makes the novel a wonderful and poignant love story, told over again and again in the different relationships that exist between the characters." -Asta Sinusas - sfrevu.com (Read this review) "A painter named Susan and her troubled friend Marina -- "self-involved, and tiresome and repetitive; drunken and slatternly [but] wonderful and unique" -- begin to receive intimations of a tropical afterlife community also named Marina, founded somehow by earthly Marina's dead grandfather. Space and time crumple and fold, assisted by a turtle named Jack who can swim to the moon and back, and lives are invigorated with magic not untinged with despair. Think Carol Emshwiller and Josephine Saxton, and you'll have some idea of Pflug's poetic, melancholy accomplishments." -Paul Di Filippo - washingtonpost.com "This first novel by Ursula Pflug is entirely in keeping with her poetic, magical short stories, imbued with a unique and enigmatic atmosphere. The opening pages plunge us into a whirlwind of episodes and characters, beginning on a beach where a turtle that transforms into a man and a dead man who transforms into a turtle cross paths before they empty a bottle of whiskey together..." -Jean Louis Trudel Interview with Ursula Pflug Fantastic Metropolis

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