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Crown
May 2015
On Sale: May 19, 2015
322 pages
ISBN: 0553446614
EAN: 9780553446616
Kindle: B00N6PD39G
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Paranormal | Fiction
For readers of The Night Circus and Station
Eleven, a lyrical and absorbing debut set in a world
covered by water
As a Gracekeeper, Callanish
administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their
final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone
on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending
watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still
haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer
with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns,
dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the
next, entertaining in exchange for sustenance.
In a
world divided between those inhabiting the mainland
("landlockers") and those who float on the sea
("damplings"), loneliness has become a way of life for North
and Callanish, until a sudden storm offshore brings change
to both their lives--offering them a new understanding of
the world they live in and the consequences of the past,
while restoring hope in an unexpected
future.
Inspired in part by Scottish myths and
fairytales, The Gracekeepers tells a modern story of
an irreparably changed world: one that harbors the same
isolation and sadness, but also joys and marvels of our own age.
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