a. deborah baker
A01=Seanan McGuire
adoptee
adoptive children
appropriate for kids
Author_Seanan McGuire
Category=FN
dark
disability rep
drowning
eleanor west
elenor west
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
fable
fariy tale
giant turtles
hopeful
kindness
macguire
mguire
miguire
mira grant
mistrust of adults
mysterious
portal fantasy
powers
prosthetic arm
runaway child
sea creatures
shawnan
sheanan
sinister
tweens
underwater ships
Product details
- ISBN 9781250848338
- Weight: 254g
- Dimensions: 142 x 217mm
- Publication Date: 17 Feb 2025
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her.
Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she'd been missing from birth.
It was cumbersome; it was uncomfortable; it was wrong.
It wasn't her.
Frustrated and unable to express why, Nadya began to wander, until the day she fell through a door into Belyrreka, the Land Beneath the Lake - and found herself in a world of water, filled with child-eating amphibians, majestic giant turtles, and impossible ships that sailed as happily beneath the surface as on top. In Belyrreka, she found herself understood for who she was: a Drowned Girl, who had made her way to her real home, accepted by the river and its people.
But even in Belyrreka, there are dangers, and trials, and Nadya would soon find herself fighting to keep hold of everything she had come to treasure.
SEANAN McGUIRE (she/her) is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex and Locus Award-winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. In 2022 she managed the same feat, again!
