![]() ![]() The only clue to both her aunt’s disappearance and her father’s murder is the odd rectangular object her father left behind, an object she comes to realize is a book - a marvelous item unheard of in her otherwise illiterate society. But when Nin is kidnapped, leaving Sefia completely alone, none of her survival skills can help her discover where Nin’s been taken, or if she’s even alive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt, track, and steal. The Reader plays with the idea of a book as an object of power, layering in hidden messages and clues throughout the text. ![]() So begins the stunning debut novel from Traci Chee, The Reader (on sale: September 13, 2016), the first in a literary fantasy series set in a world where reading does not exist. ![]()
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