This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a love song, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale.
Awash in the rhythms of folklore and storytelling and rich with Hairston\'s characteristic lush prose, Master of Poisons is epic fantasy that will bleed your mind with its turns of phrase and leave you aching for the world it burns into being..
Awa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the limits of her knowledge and comes into her own in a world of sorcery, floating cities, kindly beasts, and uncertain men.
Djola, righthand man and spyMaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile.
There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find.
To live and do nothing is death.
To get caught in a storm is death.
The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire.
Once-sweet water turns foul.
Poison desert eats good farmland. --Daniel José Older Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons NEW MATERIAL FOR A NEW EDITION! This trade paperback includes an extensive, conversational interview between the author and Daniel José Older! The world is changing.
This is medicine for a broken world.
This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a love song, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale
