Description
Award-winning authors David Bowles and Guadalupe Garcia McCall join forces to create an extraordinary YA contemporary fantasy about a powerful romance and the difficult journeys of two people separated by centuries.
About the Author
David Bowles is an award-winning Mexican American author and translator from Texas. His books include The Smoking Mirror, Feathered Serpent Dark Heart of Sky, and They Call Me Guero. He has been published in the New York Times, School Library Journal, Strange Horizons, English Journal, Rattle, Translation Review, and the Journal of Children's Literature. In 2017, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters, and in 2020, he co-founded #DignidadLiteraria, a social justice movement advocating for greater Latinx representation in publishing. www.davidbowles.us Guadalupe Garcia McCall is the award-winning author of Under the Mesquite, Summer of the Mariposas, Shame the Stars, All the Stars Denied, and Echoes of Grace. She has received a Pura Belpre Author Award, a Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award, and the Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award, and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, among many other accolades. She advocates for literacy and diverse books. She lives with her husband in Texas. ggmccall.com
Reviews
An excellent romantic fantasy woven with timeless themes. The authors juxtapose historical aspects of Aztec civilization with today's current events, calling attention to strains that migrants experience in modern-day detention centers. Young adults will thoroughly enjoy this riveting, long-distance love story. * Booklist, starred review *
By turns heartfelt and heart-pounding, this story will grip readers to the final pages. * The Horn Book *
The alternating perspectives brim with vitality, pulling the reader into each moment while intertwining ever more closely the shared threads of indigeneity, colonial oppression, and hope for a more peaceful future. * BCCB *
A gentle love story and action-packed sequences elevate this sobering read. * Publishers Weekly *
Book Information
ISBN 9781547609895
Author David Bowles
Format Hardback
Page Count 464
Imprint Bloomsbury YA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 528g