Magician is the debut novel by Tracy Lynne Oliver, a dark fantasy that follows a Boy who survives an unspeakably violent childhood through a mysterious, intervening magic.
When he escapes into the care of a traveling circus, he discovers wonder, chosen family, and an apprenticeship that awakens a power far greater than he understands. As ambition reshapes him into the Magician, the very force that once saved him begins to isolate him and threaten everything he loves.
Written in lyrical, incantatory prose, Tracy Lynne Oliver’s Magician explores the cost of power and the legacy of violence, drawing comparisons to Our Share of Night and The Changeling. A haunting meditation on survival, patriarchy, and magic as both refuge and threat, the novel marks the arrival of a striking new voice in speculative fiction.
Roxane Gay Books
