![]() Told by a vast chorus of voices, this is a rich and stunning story that dives to startling depths, and literary teens will savor it. ![]() This gorgeously designed, lushly written offering from Printz Honor winner Cokal ( The Kingdom of Little Wounds, 2013), which builds upon the themes of The Little Mermaid, explores how femininity manifests in Sanna’s matriarchal society and outside of it. But on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands she finds a baroness with dark magics of her own, a man ripe for love, and a community searching for a saint. Determined to learn more, Sanna too becomes a student of magic, eventually creating a pair of legs for herself. ![]() Eventually she comes to learn that this is because her mother was landish, not seavish, but the witch in her clan cast a spell to erase all memories of the circumstances of Sanna’s birth. Sanna has never been quite like the other mermaids in her clan-she is not as strong a swimmer, and she sometimes struggles to breathe in the water. ![]()
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