From the critically acclaimed bestselling writer of BEE SEASON comes a travelogue through the magical and historic city of Prague – a city of vast beauty and wonderfully intimate detail. In TIME’S MAGPIE, Myla Goldberg uses her eye for the sweetness of tiny items and everyday what to place us in touch with the essence of the haunting and fantastical place. Goldberg will take us through the city’s historic roads, some eerily changed by the damaging overflow of 2002; to Lunapark, house to bumper vehicles, go-carts, and a discomfiting selection of Technicolor confections; and through Strahov Monastery, where the cabinets of curiosity display everything from butterfly specimens to a supposedly real jabberwocky. We attend an anti-war protest in Aged Town square and watch the skateboarders perform tricks on a ramped marble pedestal that once kept a statue of Lenin.