Brimming with language and music, this phantasmagoric novel taps the deep root of multi-cultural, multi-racial life in, and beyond, New Orleans. ' A hallucinatory wonder of a debut with hints of dark humor and the intellectual challenge of Samuel Delaney. Nola’s time might be coming to an end.Īudiobook features an Original score written and performed by Andrew McGowan But a storm is brewing, and the Haint of All Haints is awake. Unwilling to watch his home be destroyed, Perry will sacrifice everything to save it. Nine songs of power have escaped from the piano that maintains the city’s beat, and without them, Nola will fail. So when the city’s Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry knows trouble is afoot. Perry knows Nola’s rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2022! Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022! Apple Best Audiobook of 2022!Ī fun and fantastical love letter to New Orleans unfolds when a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song in this wildly imaginative debut. 'Magical, lyrical, gritty, otherworldly…hype like Bayou Classic in the 90s.'-P. 'A wild and wonderful debut, teeming with music, family and art.'- New York Times 'Funny, wild, witty, and profound.”―Victor LaValle

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