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City of Night Birds: A Novel Raina Telgemeier and a whole chapter onA once famous ballerina faces a final choiceto return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away foreverin this incandescent novel of redemption and love On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident that stalled her career. Once the most celebrated dancer of her generation, she now turns to pills and alcohol to numb the pain of her past. She is