The Onion Girl (Newford)

2017 Aurora Awards Best of the Decade Finalist. 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 citys shadows. Now at last de Lint tells Jillys own story...for behind the painters fey charm lies a dark secret and a past shes labored to forget. And that past is coming to claim her now.. Im the onion girl Jilly Coppercorn says. Pull back the layers of my life and you wont find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl. Shes very very good at running. But life has just forced Jilly to stop.