Being “gifted” can be overrated. Meet the fabled twelve-year-old Wheatkeeper twins of Grasshaven: fable-bodied Tylen, mostly unimpressed by her own shapeshifting ability, and Awl, whose mental-moving power leaves him fable-minded each time he uses it. When their village school burns down, they’re blamed for the catastrophe and exiled… to a greater world of misadventure. Matthew David Brozik marries deadpan, elegant prose to inventive, unpredictable, and utterly off-the-wall plots. - Jacob Sager Weinstein , author of Hyacinth and the Secrets Beneath Being "gifted" can be overrated. Meet the fabled twelve-year-old Wheatkeeper twins of Grasshaven: fable-bodied Tylen, mostly unimpressed by her own shapeshifting ability, and Awl, whose mental-moving power leaves him fable-minded each time he uses it. When their village school burns down, they're blamed for the catastrophe and exiled... to a greater world of misadventure. Matthew David Brozik was a gifted child who grew up to be a mostly normal adult. He lives in New York with his totally normal wife and their totally normal children.