A lyrical and moving debut in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret
Atwood, introducing an original and commanding new voice in fiction
As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to
their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island,
she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a
long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus
performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers,
and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining in exchange
for sustenance.
In a world divided between those