Review: Everybody's Perfect by Jo Walton

 Each chapter in Jo Walton's Everybody's Perfect is told from a different perspective. Some of the events overlap and some are unique to the teller.  The setting is Venice, but not the Venice we know. Instead, this Venice is connected to the Serenissima, which serves as a way station and a connector between worlds. Here, we meet Tiry, a laborer who has an incurable skin condition that is treated (but not cured) via magic that is dispensed at a support group. The action begins when Tiry dreams that Serenissima will soon have an administrator (called a doge) who will marry the sea. Each teller encounters this information and does something different with it. The way Walton tells the story forces the reader to think about what "truth" means and how that truth varies according to who holds it. 

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