In stirring prose (“As long as sweet water fell from the sky every afternoon and mist rolled in on a night wind, everybody promised to change-tomorrow or next week. Meanwhile, garden sprite Awa, a young griot in training, struggles to find her own place in the uncertain future. As Djola works to stop the world from burning, he discovers the darkness lurking within the empire and in his own heart. Now that it’s too late for any minor precaution to help, he sets out to find a solution. Djola, Emperor Azizi’s second in command, has tried to warn the population for years, urging them to save their homeland-but to no avail. A poison desert is spreading across the Arkhysian Empire, killing everything in its path. Hairston ( Will Do Magic for Small Change) dazzles with this complex epic fantasy about a people struggling to survive in the world they’ve helped destroy.
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