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This is set in a place (Ellada) which is not our own, but has a Victorian feel to it. Brought up as a girl, Gene (Iphigenia Laurus) and her parents are hiding a secret that would see her shunned by the nobility. Gene is both male and female and prefers tomboyish pursuits with her brother and his friends, to the debutante circuit she's about to be launched into. She also has magical abilities to interact with glowing glass mounds left by a previous civilisation. When her parents plan a devastating betrayal, Gene flees home as a boy. Reinventing herself as Micah Grey, and joins R.H. Ragona's Circus of Magic where he learns to fly. Intersexuality and bisexuality form the baseline for happenings within the circus itself and are sensitively dealt with. Gene/Micah is a, engaging and sympathetic character.
