Elatsoe

ISBN: 1646142764

Author: Little Badger, Darcie

Condition: New

One of TIME Magazine's Top 100 Fantasy Novels of All Time -- Now in Paperback!Locus Award Winner-Best First NovelA National Indie BestsellerNebula Award FinalistLodestar Award FinalistIgnyte Award FinalistTIMEs Best 100 Fantasy Books of All TimeNPR Best of the YearBooklists Top 10 First Novels for YouthA BookPage Best of the YearChicago Public Library "Best of the Best"PNBA BestsellerPublishers Weekly Best of the YearBuzzfeed's Best YA SFF of the YearShelf-Awareness Best of the YearAICL Best YA of the YearNECBA Windows & Mirrors SelectionNEIBA Award FinalistTor Best of the YearKirkus Best YA of the YearPublishers Weekly Flying StartAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award FinalistGroundbreaking. -TIMEDeeply enjoyable from start to finish.-NPRUtterly magical. -SyFyWireAtmospheric and lyrical...a gorgeous work of art.-BuzzFeedOne of the best YA debuts of 2020. Read it."-Marieke Nijkamp? A fresh voice and perspective.-Booklist, starred review? A unique and powerful Native American voice.-BookPage, starred review? A brilliant, engaging debut.-Kirkus Reviews, starred review? A fast-paced murder mystery.-Publishers Weekly, starred review? A Lipan Apache Sookie Stackhouse for the teen set. -Shelf-Awareness, starred reviewA Texas teen comes face-to-face with a cousins ghost and vows to unmask the murderer.Elatsoe-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.Who 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?The breathtaking debut novel from Darcie Little Badger features an asexual, Apache teen protagonist -- and combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, and fantasy elements, in one of the most-talked-about books in years.