Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence

Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence
Michael Marshall Smith

An unpredictable, poignant, and captivating tale for readers of all ages, by the critically acclaimed author of Only Forward.There are a million stories in the world. Most are perfectly ordinary.This one… isn’t.Hannah Green actually thinks her story is more mundane than most. But she’s about to discover that the shadows in her life have been hiding a world where nothing is as it seems: that there's an ancient and secret machine that converts evil deeds into energy, that some mushrooms can talk — and that her grandfather has been friends with the Devil for over a hundred and fifty years, and now they need her help.

HANNAH GREEN AND HER UNFEASIBLY MUNDANE EXISTENCE

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH

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Source ISBN: 9780008237912

Ebook Edition © July 2017 ISBN: 9780008237936

Version: 2018-09-21

Dedication (#u4abea521-3a00-5603-8c27-f00fe3489f30)

For Nate,

who heard some of this first,

and without whom it wouldn’t exist.

One’s destination is never a place but rather

a new way of looking at things.

—Henry Miller

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Table of Contents

Cover (#u57f2796d-825e-5ded-9764-373e700f8572)

Title Page (#u7e1a8d12-14e9-50ad-9437-f2bdd5d9f769)

Copyright (#ua26908fa-c336-5a60-9b59-baddeda6482a)

Dedication (#u05d0dd61-f8e2-59eb-b43d-c800d8966892)

Epigraph (#u0ecace78-d45a-5d17-ad0c-2968af401094)

Then (#u4c02dd12-0f15-57e5-a41f-5703f523539c)

Part 1 (#u0551abfb-586b-5bfe-93b6-1761d9ec1ef5)

Chapter 1 (#ufcb1ef60-4780-5648-9243-13c794e3a978)

Chapter 2 (#u567ed79e-4628-5023-ab34-b4bc6163e19f)

Chapter 3 (#u0577dd83-7928-5ff2-82a8-1246a829f8b0)

Chapter 4 (#ued43511b-16b9-52ec-a355-57016b076dae)

Chapter 5 (#u9be406e1-39a9-5d88-a09e-0abef489f82d)

Chapter 6 (#ub3ba39e3-8516-583c-ac80-3cc04227f6ef)

Chapter 7 (#u1ba98f61-47e0-57a7-b854-7695d9d4ac0f)

Chapter 8 (#ub40a7557-292e-5518-a995-d3930d15c673)

Chapter 9 (#udef646b7-3568-51ab-bcef-2e3a2caaa3cf)

Chapter 10 (#u199fe42f-36e9-57e6-b3e7-39215b254724)

Chapter 11 (#u3ceb65fe-5392-5796-91ac-ea12cbceed8e)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Part 2 (#litres_trial_promo)