A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic

Greetings, salutations, and welcome to The Exquisite Corpse!
All it takes is one person bold enough to set the story in motion—let the magic begin!

Kai is in Texas, visiting her truck-driving, hip-hop loving, Sherman tank of a great-aunt.

Leila has finally escaped the suburbs and is ready for a glamorous summer of international adventure with her father’s family in Pakistan.

They have no idea that their utterly different worlds are about to collide.

Each of them finds a copy of a mysterious old book called The Exquisite Corpse—and when Kai writes three words on the blank pages, they magically appear in Leila’s copy on the other side of the globe. Every sentence they write inspires a reaction from the book. And so it goes until the fable is unspooling madly, connecting both girls to each other in ways they never could have imagined.

This hilarious, inventive, and deeply touching story about destiny—how we shape it, and how it in turn shapes us—carries readers along as Kai and Leila discover the invisible threads that link us all, ultimately, to one another.