He turns out to be a merman, and he raises the daughter she gives birth to. She waits for her lover to join her there, and we get a hint that he is not like her. It starts with a young girl struggling down to the beach to give birth. Printz Honor Book The Kingdom of Little Wounds comes a gorgeously told tale of belonging, sacrifice, fear, hope, and mortality. There, as her fellow mermaids wait in the sea, Sanna stumbles into a wall of white roses thirsty for blood, a hardscrabble people hungry for miracles, and a baroness who will do anything to live forever.įrom the author of the Michael L. She apprentices herself to the witch to learn the magic of making and unmaking, and with a new pair of legs and a quest to complete for her teacher, she follows a clue that leads her ashore on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her mother and learn who she is.
The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna’s people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Sanna is a mermaid - but she is only half seavish. An award-winning author tells of a mermaid who leaves the sea in search of her landish mother in a captivating tale spun with beautiful prose, lush descriptions, empathy, and keen wit.īlood calls to blood charm calls to charm.
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