That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.

The Night Circus won an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2012. Harvill Secker the UK publiErin Morgensternr for The Night Circus contracted Failbetter Games to create an interactive browser-based puzzle game to accompany the book. In an interview with the School Library Journal Morgenstern describes the short self-contained chapters as recapitulating the myriad tents of the circus and the black and white with a splash of red motif as showing dangerous passion simmering just below the surface.

Erin Morgenstern (born July 8 1978) is an American writer and visual artist best known for writing The Night Circus.