The Entropy of Bones
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
In Ayize Jama-Everett's second Liminal novel, a young
martial artist finds there's more to the world than she can kick, more
than she can see.
Chabi doesn’t realize her
martial arts master may not be on the side of the gods. She does know
he’s changed her from being an almost invisible kid to one that anyone —
or at least anyone smart — should pay attention to. But attention from
the wrong people can mean more trouble than even she can handle. Chabi
might be emotionally stunted. She might have no physical voice. She
doesn’t communicate well with words, but her body is poetry.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This spellbinding novel shares a setting the present day, layered with magic with Jama-Everett's The Liminal People and The Liminal War, but it stands well on its own. "Normal" is not part of protagonist Chabi's world: she was raised on a houseboat in Sausalito, Calif., and has been mute from birth, but she discovers she can push her mental voice into people's minds. Faced with public school and its hazards, she asks a local martial arts master, Narayana, to teach her to fight. Narayana makes Chabi a weapon: a superhuman bar fighter and brawler. She's able to shatter skeletons with her understanding of the powers of entropy. Chabi uses her deadly skills first to protect a likable trio of marijuana farmers, then as a security guard for an impossibly rich hotel magnate who's as dangerous in his own way as Narayana. Rooted in Chabi's voice, the story is spare, fierce, and rich, and readers will care just as much about the delicate, damaged relationship between Chabi and her mother as the threat of world destruction.
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