Philadelphia, 1950's: a boy, a baseball, a cockroach. Unlikely place. Unlikely characters. Unlikely love story."If Market Street ever flooded," said Stanislaus Ouspensky, "South Philly would be an island. …Water on three sides; history on the fourth. All it would take is a little push and we're cut off from the present. Because Time gets confused in South Philly."Set in Philadelphia in the 1950's, A PRINCESS OF PASSYUNK is a peculiar coming-of-age tale-a story of faith, love and magic set in an archipelago of immigrant neighborhoods. Ganady Puzdrovsky grows from boy to man on a quest for New World magic. He finds it in unlikely places: in his Baba Irina's stories, in the imaginative ramblings of Stan Ouspensky, in the religious faith of a priest and a rabbi, in a pop foul at a Giants'/Phillies game, in love that goes beyond racial or religious boundaries, in Izzy's Jewish deli.Through the agency of a very special baseball, Ganady finds and falls for a peculiar and mysterious princess that no one else believes exists. But when the girl of his dreams vanishes, Ganady goes on a hero's quest and confronts a Sausage King, a feisty crone, and a winsome bard in order to find her. Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen novels of speculative fiction and several collections of short fiction. She is a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and Mystery Writers of America (MWA), and is a founding member of the Book View Café online publishing co-op.Her short works have been featured in Analog, Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, and Jim Baen's Universe and have been finalists for the Nebula, Crawford, Sidewise and British Science Fiction awards.Her debut mystery/detective novel is THE ANTIQUITIES HUNTER (from Pegasus Crime) and her most recent science fiction title (a collaboration with Michael Reaves) was New York Times bestseller THE LAST JEDI.She is also a musician/singer/songwriter and performs and records original and filk/parody music with husband Jeff. Their latest release is, "Schrodinger's Hairball"Websites: www.maybonhoff.com, www.bookviewcafe.com
