Fiction is Freeing builds upon the illustrative natural imagery found throughout the library’s other Neighborhood Roots artwork. Vines, poppies, bubbling water currents and cacti are knitted together into a wondrous web of life, inhabited by a collection of colorful exotic creatures. A diverse community of quizzical birds and fish explore their fantastical landscape, encountering one another for the first time—expanding their horizons, through the magic of imagination