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Palimpsest
Published 2009 by Bantam Spectra · 367 pages
Hugo · 2010
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2 award entries · 2 books · 0 wins · 2010–2019
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Synopsis
Four strangers discover that after sleeping with someone who bears a certain mark, they wake with a map of a mysterious city tattooed on their skin — Palimpsest, a place they can visit only in dreams. Obsessed with returning, they must find each other in the waking world as the city’s seductive pull grows stronger.
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