Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills
Cycle. "Nghi Vo is so good."-NPR on The Brides of High Hill Wandering Cleric Chih of
Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river town of Baolin
chasing stories of a legendary famine. Amid tales of dishes served to royalty and desserts made
of dust they discover the secrets of what happens when hunger stalks the land and what the
powerful will do to hide their crimes. Trapped in the mansion of a sinister magistrate Chih
and Almost Brilliant must learn what happened in Baolin when the famine came to call and they
must do so quickly...because the things in the shadows are only growing hungrier. The Singing
Hills Cycle has been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award the Locus Award and the Ignyte
Award and has won the Crawford Award and the Hugo Award. The novellas are standalone stories
linked by the Cleric Chih and may be read in any order. The Empress of Salt and Fortune
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain Into the Riverlands Mammoths at the Gates The
Brides of High Hill A Mouthful of Dust
