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The River Has Roots - Paperback

The River Has Roots

by Amal El-Mohtar Paperback

$16.49

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Is this book for you?

Feels
Atmospheric, Melancholy, Romantic
Kind of story
Myths and fairy tales, Literary fantasy
About
Family, Grief, Nature
Pace
Steady
How dark
2 of 5. A little dark
Romance
A subplot

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Complete the set: Amal El-Mohtar: two novellas

This Is How You Lose the Time War is co-written with Max Gladstone.

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Two sisters live where the river Liss runs out of Faerie, and one of them is about to be murdered.

Esther and Ysabel Hawthorn tend the willows at Thistleford, on the border where the ordinary world thins into Arcadia. Esther has a suitor she does not want and a lover from the other side whom she does. The suitor is not accustomed to being refused.

El-Mohtar is working directly in the tradition of the murder ballad, specifically "The Twa Sisters," the one where a drowned girl's bones are made into a harp that sings the truth. She keeps the shape of the old song and gives it back its teeth, with prose that's close to song itself.

Short, lush, and deliberately strange, from the co-author of This Is How You Lose the Time War. This is the paperback edition.

Details

  • Author: Amal El-Mohtar
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781250363688

Praise

  • This book is lyrical, elegant, and above all, kind. Amal El-Mohtar is quite simply one of the best writers on the scene in ages.

    T. Kingfisher, New York Times bestselling author of A Sorceress Comes To Call

  • Half delicious murder ballad, half beguiling love story, Amal El-Mohtar transports us to Faerieland so seamlessly it seems as though she just stepped out of it.

    Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author

  • A book you'll want to revisit like a favorite song, especially once you know the words to sing along.

    Kirkus

  • A marvelous story that pulls on old Grimm fairy tales of violence and truth telling, of what it means to be sisters in a story of fae and folklore, and of the kind of true love that exists between sisters.

    Booklist

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