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Author_Aimee Lim
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Chinese
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family
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middle grade fiction
middle grade readers
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mother
mother-daughter relationship
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netherworld
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purgatory
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thread
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- ISBN 9781250886170
- Weight: 245g
- Dimensions: 133 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Palgrave USA
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Twelve-year-old Evie Mei Huang never did like helping in her mum’s tailor shop. She hated dyeing and spooling the thread and how the measuring tape gets all twisted up. Most of all, now that her mother has died, she hates that she isn’t here anymore.
When the universe sends a life preserver, Evie knows to grab it. So it’s weird when a talking monkey shows up and tells her that her plain, hardworking tailor mother was actually the head of a guild of magical weavers who control the fate of humanity. He also comes bearing the information that her mother is trapped in Diyu, the Chinese underworld, and that only Evie can get her back. No pressure.
But the important thing is that Evie’s mum isn’t dead. And if she’s got this one shot to bring her back and save her family, she’s got to take it.
Aimee Lim is a library associate and former Jeopardy! champion from Arcadia, California. She has a BA in English with an emphasis on creative writing from the University of California, Davis. The Spindle of Fate is her first novel, though she is a two-time finalist in a "write the worst opening line(s) to a novel" contest.
