Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar
As everyone ought to know by now, not all fairies are nice! But these fairies are pretty nice .. although they're not from New York and their manners could use some improving. Martin Millar here tells the story of the Dinnie, an "overweight enemy of humanity, and the worst violinist in New York," whose world is knocked upside down when two very lost fairies from Cornwall stumble in his fourth-floor walk-up window and vomit on his carpet. Well, despite the friendliness of these two Cornish fairies, it takes Dinnie some time to adjust. And then some other Cornish fairies arrive. The fairies have frustrating conversations with the squirrels in Central Park, because New York squirrels are cynical and do not believe in fairies.Â
And then, there's Kerry. Heather is quite frustrated because she does not play the guitar very well. And then the Chnese fairies arrive. After that, a war between the fairies ensues. Â
According to Neil Gaiman, Millar writes "like Kurt Vonnegut might have written, if he'd been born fifty years later in a different country and hung around with entirely the wrong sort of people ..This is a book for every fiddler that has ever realised, half way through playing an ancient Scottish air, that the Ramones' 'I Wanna Be Sedated'Â is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it."Â
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