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È iniziata la stagione della fine. Con un’enorme frattura che percorre l’Immoto, l’unico continente del pianeta, da parte a parte, una faglia che sputa tanta cenere da oscurare il cielo per anni. O secoli. Comincia con la morte, con un figlio assassinato e una figlia scomparsa. Comincia con il tradimento e con ferite a lungo sopite che tornano a pulsare. L’Immoto è da sempre abituato alle catastrofi, alle terribili Quinte Stagioni che ne sconquassano periodicamente le viscere provocando sismi e sconvolgimenti climatici. Quelle Stagioni che gli orogeni sono in grado di prevedere, controllare, provocare. Per questo sono temuti e odiati più della lunga e fredda notte; per questo vengono perseguitati, nascosti, uccisi; o, se sono fortunati, sono presi fin da piccoli e messi sotto la tutela di un Custode, nel Fulcro, e costretti a usare il loro potere per il bene del mondo. È in questa terra spezzata che si trovano a vivere Damaya, Essun e Syenite, tre orogene legate da un unico destino.

For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, fifteen, and Luna, six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately misses her grandparents and Alex, who is falling in love with a classmate, is unwilling to give his mother a chance. Letty comes up with a plan to help the family escape the dangerous neighborhood and heartbreaking injustice that have marked their lives, but one wrong move could jeopardize everything she's worked for and her family's fragile hopes for the future. Vanessa Diffenbaugh blends gorgeous prose with compelling themes of motherhood, undocumented immigration, and the American Dream in a powerful and prescient story about family.

Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis: drop everything and drive from Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. Tomorrow. Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own, agrees. It''s a journey that changes both their lives, as she learns Isabelle''s tale of a forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences-- a tale that just might help Dorrie find her own way.

Would you accept a chance for happiness even if it wasn't yours to have? This is a story about a lighthouse keeper and his wife, who live on a lonely island with just seagulls, stars and buffeting winds for company. It's about a tiny baby and a dead man in a boat that drifts ashore one April morning, and the apparently harmless decision made that day. More than anything, it's a story about right and wrong, and how sometimes they look the same.