The picture-perfect façade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets, and she will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family" - Publisher's description. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. Shes sassy and sweet, and has a ghost dog as her best friend. Elatsoe also won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and was a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in TIME as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Elatsoe is an Apache girl with the ability to call ghosts back from Below. Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Seventeen-year-old Elatsoe ("Ellie" for short) 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 has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice. "Imagine an America very similar to our own.
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