Embark on a literary adventure with Kathryn Davis's 'Duplex,' where the ordinary intersects with the extraordinary in a suburban landscape pulsing with magical realism. Mary and Eddie, two children bound by fate, navigate a world where love is a potent yet precarious force amidst a chorus of adults trapped in temporal stasis. As cryptic whispers of a darker future permeate the neighborhood, a sorcerer's car heralds the collapse of childhood's eternal present. Reality morphs, folding past into future, humans into robots, and the tender years into a realm dominated by sorcery and power. In this metamorphic rite of passage, the duplex is not just a dwelling but a portal—the crux between innocence and the soulless mechanizations of maturity.