{"product_id":"elatsoe-hardcover","title":"Elatsoe - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDarcie Little Badger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRovina Cai\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLocus Award Winner--Best First Novel \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA National Indie Bestseller \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNebula Award Finalist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLodestar Award Finalist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIgnyte Award Finalist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTIME's Best 100 Fantasy Books of All Time \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNPR Best of the Year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBooklist's Top 10 First Novels for Youth \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA BookPage Best of the Year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChicago Public Library \"Best of the Best\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePNBA Bestseller \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best of the Year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBuzzfeed's Best YA SFF of the Year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShelf-Awareness Best of the Year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAICL Best YA of the Year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNECBA Windows \u0026amp; Mirrors Selection \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNEIBA Award Finalist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTor Best of the Year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKirkus Best YA of the Year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Flying Start \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award Finalist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Groundbreaking.\"--TIME \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Deeply enjoyable from start to finish.\"--NPR \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Utterly magical.\"--SyFyWire \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Atmospheric and lyrical...a gorgeous work of art.\"--BuzzFeed \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the best YA debuts of 2020. Read it.\"--Marieke Nijkamp \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e★ \"A fresh voice and perspective.\"--Booklist, starred review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e★ \"A unique and powerful Native American voice.\"--BookPage, starred review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e★ \"A brilliant, engaging debut.\"--Kirkus Reviews, starred review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e★ \"A fast-paced murder mystery.\"--Publishers Weekly, starred review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e★ \"A Lipan Apache Sookie Stackhouse for the teen set.\"--Shelf-Awareness, starred review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Texas teen comes face-to-face with a cousin's ghost and vows to unmask the murderer.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElatsoe--Ellie for short--lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals--most importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWho killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and it's dark past. But will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA breathtaking debut novel featuring an asexual, Apache teen protagonist, \u003ci\u003eElatsoe\u003c\/i\u003e combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, fantasy elements, and is one of the most-talked about debuts of the year.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarcie Little Badger is an Earth scientist, writer, and fan of the weird, beautiful, and haunting. She is an enrolled member of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas. Her Locus Award-winning debut novel, \u003ci\u003eElatsoe\u003c\/i\u003e, was a National Indie Bestseller, named to over a dozen best-of-year lists, and called one of the Best 100 Fantasy Novels of All Time by \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eA Snake Falls to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and received a Newbery Award Honor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRovina Cai is a freelance illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. She works out of an old convent building that is possibly haunted. Her work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators and the Children's Book Council of Australia. Recently she has illustrated books by Patrick Ness and Margo Lanagan. 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