![]() ![]() Maps, floor plans and clocks are no use to Eva and Henry. The entrance is never in the same place twice. ![]() Eva falls under the sway of Magister and discovers her latent powers. Together, Eva and Henry head for the fair, where they encounter the Pavilion of Magic, and inside it Mr. “Overstreet House was a tinkling tune played on the same piano as Home.” Of course, home is what Eva has always craved: “All her life, she’d lived with the orphan’s quiet question - what was it like to have a family? What was it like to be at home?” In Chicago, Eva settles in with Henry’s aunt and uncle. Henry is an artist, and his sketchbook is full of images of the fair, though he has never seen it. But one night, mid-séance, a mysterious voice beckons Eva to “Come see the fair!” She isn’t certain what this means, and yet she jumps on a train for the World’s Fair, driven by the same need she has carried with her from town to town, “the need for things to be different - better, brighter than what they are.”Īlmost immediately, Eva encounters another passenger, a boy named Henry, who has also been drawn inexplicably to Chicago. The year is 1893, and the nearly 14-year-old Eva Root, a performer who has spent half her young life conducting sham séances in the service of a drunken grifter, is jaded. ![]()
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