Everybody’s Perfect

Description

Piranesi meets Swordspoint in an elegant relay race through fantasy Venice from Hugo award-winning author Jo Walton

The Serenissima is built from mist and belief, a mythical shadow sister to Venice and crossroads of the nine worlds.

When a laborer called Tiry has a dream that Serenissima will have a doge, and that they will marry the sea, he tells it to a fortune teller named Khadsha. She tells her apprentice, a gondolier called Taddeo, who tells a cop named Gom, who’s heard it from five people this morning already. And by that point, it’s already settled into the bones of the Serenissima, more than half-fated.

Everybody’s Perfect is a gentle, shifting, structurally inventive narrative of startling beauty that will make you rethink everything you think you know about fantasy.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Jo Walton
Published: 06/30/2026
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 9781250314055
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 1.11″ H x 8.51″ L x 5.51″ W

About the Author
JO WALTON won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her novel Among Others and the Tiptree Award for her novel My Real Children. Before that, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her novel Tooth and Claw won the World Fantasy Award. The novels of her Small Change sequence–Farthing, Ha’penny, and Half a Crown–have won acclaim ranging from national newspapers to the Romantic Times Critics’ Choice Award. A native of Wales, she lives in Montreal.