The Onion Girl
core novel 2001 Newford
Record
| First published | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.17 (7,467 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 512 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765303813 |
Synopsis
The Onion Girl, set in Charles de Lint's city of Newford, opens as Jilly Coppercorn, a middle-aged painter who survived a difficult and abusive childhood to build a stable, meaningful life as an artist, is struck by a car and left paralyzed on one side of her body. While hospitalized, Jilly discovers she can project herself into a dream realm where her body is young and unimpaired, entering a gift her close friend Sophie has long had. There she meets the shapeshifter Joe Crazy Dog, who tells her that mystical beings known as the crow girls may be able to cure her paralysis, but only if she is willing to confront old emotional wounds first.
Where it sits
- Universe: Newford
- Series: Newford, core novels core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Charles de Lint
Notes
- From the series record (Newford, core novels): Widely-cited central novels of the fictional city of Newford, an urban-fantasy setting for many further novels and story collections.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Newford, core novels: position 3 of 3: previous Memory and Dream (1994)
Sources
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