Locus Award Winner—Best First NovelA National Indie BestsellerNebula Award FinalistLodestar
Award FinalistIgnyte Award FinalistTIME's Best 100 Fantasy Books of All TimeNPR Best of the
YearBooklist's Top 10 First Novels for YouthA BookPage Best of the YearChicago Public Library
Best of the BestPNBA BestsellerPublishers Weekly Best of the YearBuzzfeed's Best YA SFF of the
YearShelf-Awareness Best of the YearAICL Best YA of the YearNECBA Windows & Mirrors
SelectionNEIBA Award FinalistTor Best of the YearKirkus Best YA of the YearPublishers Weekly
Flying StartAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award Finalist Groundbreaking.—TIME Deeply
enjoyable from start to finish.—NPR Utterly magical.—SyFyWire Atmospheric and lyrical...a
gorgeous work of art.—BuzzFeed One of the best YA debuts of 2020. Read it.—Marieke Nijkamp ★ A
fresh voice and perspective.—Booklist starred review ★ A unique and powerful Native American
voice.—BookPage starred review ★ A brilliant engaging debut.—Kirkus Reviews starred review ★
A fast-paced murder mystery.—Publishers Weekly starred review ★ A Lipan Apache Sookie
Stackhouse for the teen set.—Shelf-Awareness starred review A Texas teen comes face-to-face
with a cousin's ghost and vows to unmask the murderer. Elatsoe—Ellie for short—lives in an
alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous
and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals—most importantly her ghost dog
Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies all signs point to a car crash but his ghost tells her
otherwise: He was murdered. Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family her
best friend Jay and the memory great great great great great great grandmother Elatsoe
must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and it's dark past. But
will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started? A
breathtaking debut novel featuring an asexual Apache teen protagonist Elatsoe combines
mystery horror noir ancestral knowledge haunting illustrations fantasy elements and is
one of the most-talked about debuts of the year.
