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Almond rejects the label of fantasy for his work, finding it closer to the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Magical realism takes an ordinary slice of reality and infuses it with the supernatural. Other examples of magical realism are Charles de Lint's Newford series and Orson Scott Card's Tales of Alvin Maker.
Almond delivers the magic in Michael's.....
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