Award-winning Rachel Hartman's newest YA is a tour de force and an exquisite fantasy for the
#metoo movement.Tess of the Road is astonishing and perfect. It's the most compassionate book
I've read since George Eliot's Middlemarch. --NPR In the medieval kingdom of Goredd women are
expected to be ladies men are their protectors and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess
is none of these things. Tess is. . . different. She speaks out of turn has wild ideas and
can't seem to keep out of trouble. Then Tess goes too far. What she's done is so disgraceful
she can't even allow herself to think of it. Unfortunately the past cannot be ignored. So
Tess's family decide the only path for her is a nunnery. But on the day she is to join the nuns
Tess chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her hair pulls on her boots and sets out
on a journey. She's not running away she's running towards something. What that something is
she doesn't know. Tess just knows that the open road is a map to somewhere else--a life where
she might belong. Returning to the spellbinding world of the Southlands she created in the
award-winning New York Times bestselling novel Seraphina Rachel Hartman explores
self-reliance and redemption in this wholly original fantasy. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF
THE YEAR BY NPR * BOSTON GLOBE * The Chicago Public Library * KIRKUS REVIEWS Four starred
reviews! The world building is gorgeous the creatures are vivid and Hartman is a masterful
storyteller. Pick up this novel and savor every page. --Paste Magazine
