When a circus trick goes horribly wrong and star magician Merry disappears in front of her daughter Tulsi everyone believes Merrys gone forever. But then 11-year-old Tulsi discovers one tiny impossible sliver of hope for bringing her mother back: If Tulsi learns enough Big Magic before the next full moon she just might be able to rescue Merry by travelling to a parallel universe a world where Tulsi has never been born and which holds the key to saving their circus. There are reasons its all but impossible: It can take a lifetime to learn Big Magic. Tulsi has never done any magic at all. And the only person who can teach her is her estranged grandmother Sylvie a strange unlikeable woman who was banned for fifteen years from doing Big Magic herself
