Charles de Lint
This is a story that crosses between fantasy and reality in a seamless fashion. Both the characters and the reader share the same ambiguity of place and purpose, but de Lint does such a fantastic job with this that we are never confused or frustrated. The setting is a modern day city, but the story is one of the interplay of "Americans" and "Animal People". The Animal People are the first people, pulled out of the dark and into the world. Raven, the Crow Girls and Jack were all there. And now they are encountering another iteration of an age old conflict. Several humans and part humans are pulled into the story, but the "fantasy" nature of this story is not typical. Instead of reading like and elves and dwarves story, it reads more like a story told by a Native American shaman. It reminds me a lot of The Word and the Void series by Terry Brooks. And it reads more like a Harry Bosch detective mystery than it does typical fantasy. Really like this.
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