A Spindle Splintered
“It’s funny, sharp, queer, and deeply loves its source material…It dares us to believe in sympathetic magic.”
NPR
An October 2021 LibraryReads Pick
Finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novella
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
A Locus Magazine Pick of Best Books of the Year
A BuzzFeed Books Pick of the Month
Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2021
Among shortlisted titles for Hugo Award - Nominee, 2022
Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2021
Among shortlisted titles for Hugo Award - Nominee, 2022
"Amy Landon's lively narration unites present-day Ohio and Perceforest, a fairy-tale realm, in this immersive reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty universe." - AudioFile Magazine
USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined.
"A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales." -Katherine Arden
It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one.
Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia's last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate.
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