iam-mars:rainbow-smite:anonymousedward:obscuritiesoffbeat:(x)Via @theunvanquishedzims - this was too
iam-mars:rainbow-smite:anonymousedward:obscuritiesoffbeat:(x)Via @theunvanquishedzims - this was too good to hide in the tags!I’m not wearing my glasses and I kept reading chess as cheese and I was so fucking confused.@spiritspodcast Dr. Darcie Little Badger is an accomplished earth scientist and writer, and her debut YA book Elatsoe just came out in 2020!https://darcielittlebadger.wordpress.com/https://www.levinequerido.com/elatsoe[Image: the book cover for Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger, with illustrations by Rovina Cai. The cover shows Elatsoe, a girl with brown skin and straight black hair wearing a red raincoat, surrounded by spectral running dogs. The breeze caused by the dogs blows Elatsoe’s hair and carries scattered orange leaves across the image. End description.]“Imagine an America very similar to our own. It’s got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. 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. But other forces are less charming and should never see the light of day.Seventeen-year-old Elatsoe (“Ellie” for short) lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry. 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.” -- source link
#elatsoe#ghosts#ya lit