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The Celestial Virgin: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Up Girls by [EC Rosenberg, Leo Lingas]

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by EC Rosenberg (Author), Leo Lingas (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition

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Xanna Daniels, teenaged Wiccan witch and self-imposed social outcast on the close-knit island of Martha's Vineyard, MA, has just deferred her freshman year at Harvard. Instead, she's going to run away to Seattle with her long-time summer crush -- and, she hopes, lose her virginity to him.

Life in Seattle turns out nothing like she'd imagined. Manipulated and abandoned by the clique of graphic artists who initially take her in, Xanna finds herself on the streets of the city's University District amongst the rave kids and teenage addicts. Xanna is befriended by and moves into the subsidized apartment of Jules Reardon, a foul-mouthed teen mother and recovering heroin addict. Everywhere is temptation, sexual and otherwise. But by accident or fate Xanna has arrived in Seattle with her virtue intact, and decides to keep it that way: "My virginity is my power," she tells herself repeatedly.

On the night of her 18th birthday, Xanna meets Michael Dobyns, a 24-year-old law student who moonlights as a cab driver. Dobyns, as he calls himself, is a bombastic, chain-smoking Goth who tries to convince Xanna that he's a reincarnation of the Egyptian God Osiris, and that Xanna herself is the Egyptian goddess Isis, the "Celestial Virgin." Dobyns may or may not have paranormal powers; may or may not have escaped from an abusive, football-playing childhood in rural Florida; and may or may not shoplift his expensive clothes and music. Xanna thinks he's a freak, but she and Dobyns nevertheless begin hanging out together nightly, usually in his cab or, after work, at some of Seattle's more surreal landmarks. Xanna, meanwhile, cuts off communication with her parents.

In Xanna's dream-like vision of Seattle, "the city of lost children," her alien environment magnifies the milestones of early adulthood. Xanna gets her first real paying job, fails horribly with a haircoloring experiment, discovers that hallucinogens aren't fun, gets a vibrator as a gift -- and learns more than she ever wanted about poverty, self-reliance, and the unexpected ways the "magick" she longs for manifests itself in the visible world.

Length: 267 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled

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Product details

ASIN : B004YR0XLQ
Publisher : Hearsay Press (April 29, 2011)
Publication date : April 29, 2011
Language : English
File size : 2259 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 267 pages
Lending : Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #2,967,158 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #495 in Contemporary Women Graphic Novels (Kindle Store)
- #1,455 in Religion & Spirituality Graphic Novels
- #1,567 in Contemporary Women Graphic Novels (Books)

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Keith Schincke

I read this during my summer vacation. It is ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2015

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I read this during my summer vacation. It is a very colorful story about a young lady finding the real world away from home. The author spends a lot of time providing vivid descriptions of the areas around the main character.

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Debanjan Basu

Perfect - witchcraft/teenage coming of age/awesomeness

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2012

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The Celestial Virgin: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Up Girls

only halfway through the book till now... and loving it! the protagonist is a humorous and original voice.
Worth a read - certainly worth a read!
I would shove this book down unsuspecting throats if i could.. alas! only if i could!