The Wise and the WickedAuthor: Rebecca Podos
Genre: YA Fantasy/LGBT/Magical Realism
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray
Synopsis:
Ruby Chernyavsky has been told the stories since she was a child: The
women in her family, once possessed of great magical abilities to remake
lives and stave off death itself, were forced to flee their Russian
home for America in order to escape the fearful men who sought to
destroy them. Such has it always been, Ruby’s been told, for powerful
women. Today, these stories seem no more real to Ruby than folktales,
except for the smallest bit of power left in their blood: when each of
them comes of age, she will have a vision of who she will be when she
dies—a destiny as inescapable as it is inevitable. Ruby is no exception,
and neither is her mother, although she ran from her fate years ago,
abandoning Ruby and her sisters. It’s a fool’s errand, because they all
know the truth: there is no escaping one’s Time.
Until Ruby’s great-aunt Polina passes away, and, for the first time, a
Chernyavsky’s death does not match her vision. Suddenly, things Ruby
never thought she’d be allowed to hope for—life, love, time—seem
possible. But as she and her cousin Cece begin to dig into the family’s
history to find out whether they, too, can change their fates, they
learn that nothing comes without a cost. Especially not hope.
Check out an excerpt HERE!
Rebecca Podos' debut novel, THE
MYSTERY OF HOLLOW PLACES, was a Junior Library Guild Selection and a
B&N Best YA Book of 2016. Her second book, LIKE WATER, won the 2018
Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Children's and Young Adult. THE WISE AND
THE WICKED, her third novel, is forthcoming in May 2019.
A graduate of the Writing, Literature and Publishing Program at Emerson
College and the Creative Writing Program at College of Santa Fe,
Rebecca's fiction has been published in journals like Glimmer Train,
Paper Darts, and Smokelong Quarterly. By day, she works as a YA and MG
agent at the Rees Literary Agency in Boston.
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