Master of Poisons
Master of Poisons "This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a lovesong, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale. --Daniel Jos OlderNamed a Best of 2020 Pick for Kirkus Review's Best Books of…
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Master of Poisons
"This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a lovesong, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale. --Daniel Jos OlderNamed a Best of 2020 Pick for Kirkus Review's Best Books of 2020Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of PoisonsThe world is changing. This is medicine for a broken world.
Once-sweet water turns foul. Poison desert eats good farmland. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire.
To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find.Djola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile.Awa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the