Cover art for If Wishes Were Retail
Published
Tachyon Publications, November 2025
ISBN
9781616964344
Format
Softcover, 256 pages
Dimensions
21.6cm × 14cm

If Wishes Were Retail

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A pop-up at the local mall meets Aladdin in this cosy, chaotic, and deeply funny debut novel where an enterprising young woman and a clueless genie just try to make a living.

Alex Delmore needs a miracle. She wants out of her dead-end suburban town, but her parents are broke and NYU seems like a distant dream.

Good thing there's a genie in town and he's hiring at the Wellspring Mall. It'd help if the Jinn-formerly-of-the-Ring-of-Khorad knew even one thing about 21st-century America. It'd help if he weren't at least as stubborn as Alex. It'd really help if her brother didn't sell her out to her conspiracy theory-loving, gnome-hating dad.

When Alex and the genie set up their wishing kiosk, they face seemingly-endless setbacks. The mall is failing and management will not stop interfering on behalf of their big-box tenants.

But when the wishing biz might start working, the biggest problem of all remains: People are really terrible at wishing.

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