Amal El-Mohtar

The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death. 

The hardcover edition features beautiful interior illustrations. 

“Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath.” 

In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family. 

There, they tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honour an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. None more devotedly than the family’s latest daughters, Esther and Ysabel, who cherish each other as much as they cherish the ancient trees. 

But when Esther rejects a forceful suitor in favor of a lover from the land of Faerie, not only the sisters’ bond but also their lives will be at risk…

The River Has Roots

laine

Ysabel narrowed her eyes, reached for her sister’s hand, and twined their fingers together tightly. “Well, Rin can think what they like. If you were ever in danger of forgetting how to sing, I would simply have to come and remind you.”

crying on the floor. i miss my baby sister.

“Rin,” she said, “I’m sorry. I want to be with you. But I was an elder sister before I was a wife, and for longer, and that’s a shape I can’t easily shake.”

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