Imagine an America very similar to our own.
This is a book singular in feeling and beauty..
We have paired her with her artistic match, illustrator Rovina Cai.
Darcie Little Badger is an extraordinary debut talent in the world of speculative fiction.
The picture-perfect facade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets, and she will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family.
But she is going to do more than pry.
Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes.
She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family.
Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America.
But other forces are less charming and should never see the light of day.
Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi.
This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not.
There are some differences.
It\'s got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream.
Imagine an America very similar to our own
