<b>The highly anticipated follow-up to Jeremy P. Bushnell&rsquo;s &ldquo;wonderfully weird and entertaining&rdquo; (<i>Esquire</i>) debut, <i>The Weirdness</i> </b><br> &#160;<br> Ollie Krueger&rsquo;s days as a punk kid practicing street magic are are mostly behind her. Now she&rsquo;s a butcher at Carnage, a high-end restaurant offering deconstructed takes on meat, and on the busiest nights of the week she and her partner, Guychardson, race to see who can produce more finished cuts. Ollie&rsquo;s the better butcher, but somehow Guychardson almost always wins. &#160;And Ollie thinks maybe it&rsquo;s because the mysterious knife he uses is magic.<br> &#160;<br> Before she knows it, Ollie&rsquo;s interest in the knife has thrown her square in the path of a dangerous ex-marine called &ldquo;Pig&rdquo; and his hired psychic, Maja, who are on the hunt for the knife too&mdash;who want it so badly, in fact, that they might kill for it. <br> &#160;<br> Now, magic is back in Ollie&rsquo;s life and she&rsquo;s being chased through New York City, with the fabric of space-time tattering around her and weird inter-dimensional worms squirming their way into her kitchen.&#160; And before all this is over she&rsquo;s going to need to face up to the Possible Consequences of some bad decisions, to look at the uncomfortable truths that she stuffed away long ago, deep down inside . . .