Higher Magic : Courtney Floyd

Hardcover FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary A first-generation Mage candidate with intense anxiety learns that students asking for disability accommodations are disappearing—quite literally—in this dark academia fantasy novel that combines the whimsical studies of EMILY WILDE S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FAERIES with the academic setting and themes of BABEL: OR THE NECESSITY OF VIOLENCE. In this incisive, irreverent, and whimsical dark academia novel for fans of Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde series and R.F. Kuang's Babel, a struggling mage student with intense anxiety must prove that classic literature contained magic—and learn to wield her own stories to change her institution for the better. First-generation graduate student Dorothe Bartleby has one last chance to pass the Magic program's qualifying exam after freezing with anxiety during her first attempt. If she fails to demonstrate that magic in classic literature changed the world, she'll be kicked out of the university. And now her advisor