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Miranda in Milan

By Katharine Duckett
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With Miranda in Milan, debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, casting Miranda into a Milanese pit of vipers and building a queer love story that lifts off the page in whirlwinds of feeling.

After the tempest, after the reunion, after her father drowned his books, Miranda was meant to enter a brave new world. Naples awaited her, and Ferdinand, and a throne. Instead she finds herself in Milan, in her father’s castle, surrounded by hostile servants who treat her like a ghost. Whispers cling to her like spiderwebs, whispers that carry her dead mother’s name. And though he promised to give away his power, Milan is once again contorting around Prospero’s dark arts.

With only Dorothea, her sole companion and confidant to aid her, Miranda must cut through the mystery and find the truth about her father, her mother, and herself.

“Love and lust, mothers and monsters, magicians and masked balls, all delivered with Shakespearean panache.” —Nicola Griffith, author of Hild

Miranda in Milan is somehow both utterly charming and perfectly sinister, and altogether delightful. A pleasure for any lover of romance, myth, and magic—whether or not they're fans of the Bard.” —Cherie Priest, author of Boneshaker and I Am Princess X

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“Miranda in Milan is a queer, fantastical, continuation of The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Filled with lies, magic, dead mothers, and an imprisoned uncle, this book will take you on quite thee journey as we follow Mirandas life after her rescue from Calibans island. I have a few bones to pick with this one. First of all, and most frustrating, the references to the original work this is based on felt disjointed and thrown in there at the last moment just to save face. The whole "Tempest" thing didn't really come in to play and even then it was just a convenient plot device. The whole book just felt filled to the brim with conveniences. Almost as if our main character was floating through her story and witnessing hardships rather than experiencing them. Part of this could be due to the length of the book, there simply aren't enough pages to set the plot up to its fullest potential. Second, these characters felt one-dimensional and useless. The best example of this would be Agata who was only really introduced and used as a plot-point, and it showed. Obviously any character is going to be used to further the plot of the bool, my grievance only comes when it's painfully obvious that there is no other use for the character. Antonio, her mother, Dorothea, they all fall prey to this uselessness. I think that this book is visually pleasing, as in how I see it in my head. This is thanks to Ducketts' writing. She created and fleshed out the world and because of her ability to write I had it in my head as though I was watching a movie. Her writing is beautiful in this one, really the only thing to give credit to.”
“This was fun little story about what happens when Miranda, who has spent her whole life on an island so deserted that, when seeing a passle of Italian royals, says to herself, "Oh brave new world, that has such people in't." If she is that impressed by a whole load of white guys, what do you think happens when she meets a sarcastic serving girl from Marrakech? Lots happens, that's what. There were a lot of places I wanted this book go. It went to some of them. Mostly I was grateful for this thoroughly inclusive story after experiencing the smothering racism of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Don't at me. Happy Shakespeare's birthday.”
“Rep: wlw mcs, Moroccan li”

About Katharine Duckett

KATHARINE DUCKETT’s fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Apex Magazine, Interzone, PseudoPod, and various anthologies. She is also the guest fiction editor for the Disabled People Destroy Fantasy issue of Uncanny. She hails from East Tennessee, has lived in Turkey and Kazakhstan, and attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she majored in minotaurs. Miranda in Milan is her first book. She currently resides in Brooklyn with her wife.

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