Urban fantasy is busting out of its contemporary settings, and Alaya Johnson's cleverly titled novel, Moonshine, is set in a time and place—Jazz Age Manhattan—that seems especially well suited to nocturnal paranormal adventures. Johnson makes the most of the re-imagined era with her thoughtfully developed alternate history, and adorns it with period details that reach considerably beyond the Charleston and the bob. She also doesn't shy away from the era's less-than-enlightened views on gender, race, class, and immigration.
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