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Maria Dahvana Headley's soaring YA debut is a fiercely intelligent, multilayered fantasy where Neil Gaiman's Stardust meets John Green's The Fault in Our Stars in a story about a girl caught between two worlds . . . two races . . . and two destinies. Aza Ray Boyle is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak - to live. So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who's always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world - and found, by another. Magonia. Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power - but as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war between Magonia and Earth is coming. In Aza's hands lies fate of the whole of humanity - including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie?
About the Author
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author & editor, most recently of the novel THE MERE WIFE (July 17, 2018, MCD/FSG) , MAGONIA (HarperCollins) , one of Publisher's Weekly's Best Books of 2015; AERIE (HarperCollins) ; QUEEN OF KINGS (Dutton) ; and the internationally-bestselling memoir THE YEAR OF YES (Hyperion.) With Kat Howard she is the author of THE END OF THE SENTENCE (Subterranean Press) one of NPR's Best Books of 2014, and with Neil Gaiman, she is editor of the young adult monster anthology UNNATURAL CREATURES (HarperChildrens) benefitting 826DC. Her short stories have been included in many year's best anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Karen Joy Fowler and John Joseph Adams, and have been shortlisted for the Nebula, Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy Awards. Her work has been supported by The MacDowell Colony, and Arte Studio Ginestrelle, among other fantastic organizations. She grew up in rural Idaho and now lives in Brooklyn.
