A wonderfully deep read for the forlorn New Yorkers heart.

Kirkus Reviews, starred review Literary firecracker -Publishers Weekly Expect a multidimensional approach to the context of the early 1940s, complete with World War II, being non-white in America, and misogyny, and how its characters imperfectly wade through it as they hurt, heal, protect, and betray. A sad, lovely, and blood-soaked song of a book.

In musical prose, she also offers passionate and painful depictions of the love expressed in romance and friendship and the sacrifices such love can demand. Bookpage, Science Fiction and Fantasy: August 2020 Johnsons secret history is a nuanced portrait of racism in all of its poisonous flavors, brutally overt and unsuccessfully covert. Johnson explores the intersection of race, violence and personal identity in this powerful, passionate story. Kelly Link, New York Times bestselling author of Get In Trouble A knotty, painful, gorgeously told historical fantasy in which nobodys hands are clean, nobody escapes the consequences of their own actions and the past will not stay buried -NPR, Best Books of 2020 Beautiful prose and an omnipresent sense of regret build an intense, dark mood throughout the whole book. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fifth Season Beware this magnificent beguilement of a novel: once begun, Alaya Dawn Johnsons Trouble the Saints wont let you go. Review Quotes Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime story. And so Phyllis will have to make a harrowing choice, before its too late-is there ever enough blood in the world to wash clean generations of injustice? Trouble the Saints is a dazzling, daring novel-a magical love story, a compelling exposure of racial fault lines-and an altogether brilliant and deeply American saga. Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side-and history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she keeps in her heart. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything-not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Amid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where shes hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fifth Season The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnsons timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, where an assassin falls in love and tries to change her fate at the dawn of World War II. Book Synopsis WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime story.in a word: awesome.

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