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Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. Meanwhile, Selena Durán, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita’s mother. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. Eight decades later, Anita Díaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.Īrizona, 2019. As her child’s safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel’s mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht-the night his family loses everything. This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Rin's circus has something he wants, and he won't stop until it's his. It takes the form of another circus, with tents as black as midnight and a ringmaster who rules over his troupe with a dangerous power. And Rin's past creeps closer every day, a malevolent shadow she can’t fully escape. The future holds an impending war that the Sparks can see barrelling toward their show and everyone in it. With the world still reeling from World War I, Rin and her troupe - the Circus of the Fantasticals - travel the midwest, offering a single night of enchantment and respite to all who step into their Big Top.īut threats come at Rin from all sides. And the circus they lead is a rare home and safe haven for magical misfits and outcasts, known as Sparks. Ringmaster - Rin, to those who know her best - can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze. 'This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life.'―Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?

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