This story belongs in that small but significant set of stories featuring small, obscure countries that are semi-magical but exist in our world. Veriska (approximately) is from a country called Winter (approximately). She came with her mother when they left for America. A lot of the story is centered around her relationship with the son of the Danish ambassador, and how his foreignness contrasts with hers.
Her ambition is to get a doctorate in English literature and go into teaching. She is pretty buried in that space. But (spoiler alert) it turns out that she is royalty in Winter, and will be instrumental in getting Summer to come.
It's nice, not a lot of powerfully original stuff here but well written.
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