The incredible conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Hugo Award-winning The Fifth
Season · Shortlisted for the Hugo Nebula Kitschies Audie and Locus Awards · A New York
Times Notable Book · The inaugural Wired.com book club pick The Moon will soon return.
Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.
Essun has inherited the phenomenal power of Alabaster Tenring. With it she hopes to find her
daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every outcast child can grow up safe. For Nassun
her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world
and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed
only destroyed. Praise for this trilogy: 'Amazing' Ann Leckie 'Breaks uncharted ground'
Library Journal 'Beautiful' Nnedi Okorafor 'Astounding' NPR 'Brilliant' Washington Post
