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National Book Award winner Kacen Callender delivers a captivating novel about a child facing the other-worldly shadows of depression. Moon has been plunged into a swill of uncertainty and confusion. They travel to the spirit realms every night, hoping never to return to the world of the living.But when the realm is threatened, it's up to Moon to save the spirit world, which sparks their own healing journey through the powerful, baffling, landscape that depression can cause.From this novel's very first utterance, author Kacen Callender puts us behind Moon's eyes so that we, too, are engulfed by Moon's troubling exploration through mental illness.Moon's mom is trying her best, but is clueless about what to do to reach the ugly roiling of her child's inner struggles.
About the Author
Kacen Callender is a Saint Thomian author of children's fiction and fantasy, best known for their Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award-winning middle grade debut . Their fantasy novel, , is the 2020 winner of the World Fantasy Award and won the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Callender is Black, queer, trans, and uses they/them and he/him pronouns. Callender debuted their new name when announcing their next young adult novel in May 2019.
