The House in the Cerulean Sea
T.J. Klune, 2020
A by-the-book inspector of magical orphanages visits a house whose children—and caretaker—begin to undo his neatly filed life.
T.J. Klune
Feels like wonder, death and love.
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The House in the Cerulean Sea won the 2021 Alex Award, given by the American Library Association to adult books with special appeal to teen readers.
The difference between the posters on the wall and the laughter behind the door.
He was about to leave through the front door when he paused at a bright burst of laughter coming from the kitchen. Against his better judgment, he tiptoed toward the sound. He passed by posters nailed to the walls, the same messages that hung in all the DICOMY-sanctioned orphanages he’d been to. They showed smiling children below such legends as WE’RE HAPPIEST WHEN WE LISTEN TO THOSE IN CHARGE and A QUIET CHILD IS A HEALTHY CHILD and WHO NEEDS MAGIC WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR IMAGINATION? Books by T.J. Klune
Under the Whispering Door
T.J. Klune, 2021
A lawyer, a tea shop between life and death, and a ferryman who won't be impressed. A comedy about the paperwork of dying and who makes it bearable.
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