The salt grows heavy / Cassandra Khaw.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250830913 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1250830915 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 106 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
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Genre: | Novellas. Horror fiction. Fantasy fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | KHAW C (Text) | 33126025182274 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/02/2024 |
Independence Branch | KHAW C (Text) | 33126025182316 | New Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2022 December
Set in an alternate 1840s New England,
Copyright 2022 Library Journal.To Shape a Dragon's Breath features Indigenous teenager Anequs, honored by her people when she bonds with a newly hatched dragon but challenged by the repressive rules at her dragon school, run by Anglish conquerors; debuter Blackgoose is an enrolled member of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe. Disappointed in love and life, Harlow Estrada returns home toThe Enchanted Hacienda , where the women in her family purvey a gift she lacks, creating magic from flowersâbut who knows what kind of magic might come her way as she runs the house in their absence; an adult debut from best-selling YA/Middle School author Cervantes. InThe Water Outlaws , Hugo Award winner Huang draws on the Chinese classicWater Margin to tell the story of Lin Chong, who is driven from her job training the emperor's soldiers and taken in by the Bandits of Liangshanâthieves and murderers who seek justice for the empire's downtrodden (30,000-copy first printing). Living in an isolated apartment outside London five years after a microplastic storm killed most of Earth's population, Katie and son Harryâborn after the stormâlearn they areNot Alone in ecologist Jackson's debut; a stranger barges in, unsettling their lives but inspiring Katie to seek out her fiancé. In British Fantasy winner/Bram Stoker finalist Khaw'sThe Salt Grows Heavy , a mermaid murders her husband, destroys his kingdom, and runs off with a mysterious doctor to the taiga, where they discover a village full of creepy children whose blood sport jeopardizes their visitors (125,000-copy first printing). It is foretold that Psyche will vanquish a monster that makes even the gods quake, and she dutifully trains for battle, but in debuter McNamara's retelling of thePsyche and Eros myth, her victim is the god of love himself, pricked by his own arrow (100,000-copy first printing). In the mega-best-selling Paolini'sFractal Noise , a huge pit clearly made by someone or something is spotted by the crew of theAdamura on the supposedly uninhabited planet of Talos, and a team is dispatched to investigate (400,000-copy first printing). Seeking a cure for her desperately ill mother, Nat Drozdova travels to a snow-shrouded Manhattan skyscraper, where she encounters a winter goddess who sends her on a dangerous mission in theNew York Times best-selling Saintcrow's Russian fantasy-inspiredSpring's Arcana (100,000-copy paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing). In this new fantasy from Wells, winner of Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex honors for herNew York Times best-selling "Murderbot Diaries" series,Witch King Kai-Enna has been confined to a complex water trap after being murdered and is struggling to understand why he was imprisoned and why the Rising World Coalition is getting stronger by the day (200,000-copy first printing). - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2023 April
What if the Little Mermaid laid eggs and her hatched children's hunger laid waste to her prince's land? Khaw's (
Copyright 2023 Library Journal.Breakable Things ) latest novella tackles this question with a brutally visceral but seductive opening sequence. The mermaid, who's been held captive and rendered mute by her husband, meets up with the only survivor in the land, a plague doctor. They soon come upon a band of children gleefully hunting another child at the direction of their keepers, "The Saints," three adult cult leaders who rebuild the near-death child with parts taken from themselves. Told in three sections, each satisfyingly complete as its own story, and ending with a cliff-hanger, this compelling tale features strong worldbuilding, innovative uses of body-horror tropes, lush language, and a captivatingly direct narration as it takes the protagonists and readers on a journey to contemplate what it means to be "saved."VERDICT With this brilliantly constructed tale that consciously takes on a well-known story and violently breaks it open to reveal a heartfelt core, Khaw cements their status as a must-read author. For fans of sinister, thought-provoking, horrific retellings of Western classics by authors of marginalized identity like Helen Oyeyemi and Ahmed Saadawi.