EAN: 9780358272106

DRAGONFRUIT - MAKIIA LUCIER GEBUNDEN

An Asian Pacific American Award Honor Book A USA TODAY bestseller One of NPR's 2024 "Books We
Love" A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2024 A New York Public
Library Best Book of 2024 From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier  a dazzling  romantic fantasy
inspired by Pacific Island mythology. In the old tales  it is written that the egg of a
seadragon  dragonfruit  holds within it the power to undo a person’s greatest sorrow. But as
with all things that offer hope when hope had gone  the tale came with a warning. Every wish
demands a price. Hanalei of Tamarind is the cherished daughter of an old island family. But
when her father steals a seadragon egg meant for an ailing princess  she is forced into a life
of exile. In the years that follow  Hanalei finds solace in studying the majestic seadragons
that roam the Nominomi Sea. Until  one day  an encounter with a female dragon offers her what
she desires most. A chance to return home  and to right a terrible wrong. Samahtitamahenele 
Sam  is the last remaining prince of Tamarind. But he can never inherit the throne  for
Tamarind is a matriarchal society. With his mother ill and his grandmother nearing the end of
her reign. Sam is left with two choices: to marry  or to find a cure for the sickness that has
plagued his mother for ten long years. When a childhood companion returns from exile  she
brings with her something he has not felt in a very long time—hope. But Hanalei and Sam are not
the only ones searching for the dragonfruit. And as they battle enemies both near and far 
there is another danger they cannot escape…that of the dragonfruit itself.

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