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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled The House of Discarded Dreams about Felix, Vimbai's, Reed with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy.
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conversations.value: Lyrical writing and rich imagination compensate for loose plotting in this quirky, joyous fantasy. College student Vimbai moves to a house on the New Jersey shore to escape her bickering parents. Her housemates are a bit unusual: Maya is being followed by a pack of mystical animals, and Felix has a black hole sitting on his head. As the house drifts out to sea, Vimbai's grandmother's ghost starts doing housework and giving advice. Felix draws a "Psychic Energy Baby" out of the phone lines, and the house expands to include forests and lakes. Vimbai's biggest concern is whether missing classes will affect her application to grad school. Somehow, the overall effect is dreamily compelling rather than farcical, as the author (The Secret History of Moscow) shows how competing natural and supernatural worldviews can enrich each other. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.