eDiscover is a new series on Tor.com that highlights sci-fi/fantasy titles recently brought back into print as ebooks.
Susan Palwick is a wonderful writer. I think of her as a hidden gem. All of her books are worth seeking out.
The Necessary Beggar is a book that defies classification. It is unique in my experience in being a book about people from a fantasy world who emigrate to the near future US. They are exiled from their own world and sent through a magic gate to arrive in a refugee camp in the Nevada desert. They have all the kinds of problems refugee immigrants normally have, plus the problems that they don’t come from anywhere they can point to on a map and the customs and expectations and recipes they’ve brought from home are a little odder than normal. Of course, they also have the problems they brought with them from home, and some of those problems need magical answers.
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