Vial of TearsAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Tuesday 21 March 2023
Description
Two sisters become trapped in the underworld—and in the machinations of deities, shapeshifters, and ghouls—in this lush and dangerous Phoenician mythology-inspired fantasy.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year
Teenage sisters Samira and Rima arent exactly living the dream. Instead, they live with their maddeningly unreliable mother in a rundown trailer in Michigan. Dads dead, moneys tight, and Mom disappears to gamble for days at a time. So when Sams grandfather wills her the family valuables—a cache of Lebanese antiquities—shes desperate enough to try pawning them before Mom can.
But she shouldnt. Because one is cursed, forbidden, the burial coin of a forgotten god. Disturbing it condemns her and Rima to the Phoenician underworld, a place of wicked cities, burning forests, poisoned feasts of milk and lemons, and an endless, windless ocean.
Nothing is what it seems. No one is who they say. And down here, the night never ends.
To get home—and to keep her sister safe—Sam will have to outwit beautiful shapeshifters, pose as a royal bride, sail the darkest sea... and maybe kill the god of death himself.
A lush and intensely imaginative novel in which fierce women protect each other from rapacious gods and hungering demons, and in which two tenacious sisters come into their power, Vial of Tears introduces readers to the rich and brilliant mythology of ancient Lebanon.
A Den of Geek Top New YA
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