num_pages: 384
description: Lily is a photojournalist in search of the "animal people" who supposedly haunt the city's darkest slums. Hank is a slum dweller who knows the bad streets all too well. One night, in a brutal incident, their two lives collide--uptown Lily and downtown Hank, each with a quest and a role to play in the secret drama of the city's oldest inhabitants.For the animal people walk among us. Native Americans call them the First People, but they have never left, and they claim the city for their own.Not only have Hank and Lily stumbled onto a secret, they've stumbled into a war. And in this battle for the city's soul, nothing is quite as it appears.
language: English
title: Someplace to Be Flying
titlecomplete: Someplace to Be Flying (Newford, #5)
genres: Magical Realism, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Mythology, Fiction, Magic, Canada
ratings_count: 5758
series: Newford
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Adult Literature, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Orb Books