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He was on fire,\u201d Shukla writes as his protagonist, a 16-year-old boy of Romanian and Japanese heritage who comes from an unhappy home, is wrenched from his known universe. \u201cHe felt vicious spikes jabbing at him. His throat felt constricted. His vision blurred and blacked out. His ears felt overloaded with silence. He lost sensation in his hands and legs. Time seemed to slow down and then speed up again. He was unable to focus on anything, yet a billion thoughts swirled in his mind. He felt consciousness slipping away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/books\/\">More books by Cornellian authors<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this young-adult fantasy novel by Aditya Shukla \u201919, 10 New York City teens find themselves teleported from their summer camp to an alternate dimension, where they develop superpowers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5509,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"cornell_author":[],"cornell_year_book":[554],"class_list":["post-5548","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cornell_year_book-554"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tales of Zygorra - Cornellians | Cornell University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/book\/tales-of-zygorra\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tales of Zygorra - 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