One of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Fantasy Novels of All Time — Now in Paperback!

Locus Award WinnerBest First Novel

A National Indie Bestseller

Nebula Award Finalist

Lodestar Award Finalist

Ignyte Award Finalist

TIMEs Best 100 Fantasy Books of All Time

NPR Best of the Year

Booklists Top 10 First Novels for Youth

A BookPage Best of the Year

Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best”

PNBA Bestseller

Publishers Weekly Best of the Year

Buzzfeed’s Best YA SFF of the Year

Shelf-Awareness Best of the Year

AICL Best YA of the Year

NECBA Windows & Mirrors Selection

NEIBA Award Finalist

Tor Best of the Year

Kirkus Best YA of the Year

Publishers Weekly Flying Start

American Indian Youth Literature Award Finalist

Groundbreaking. TIME

Deeply enjoyable from start to finish.NPR

Utterly magical. SyFyWire

Atmospheric and lyrical…a gorgeous work of art.BuzzFeed

One of the best YA debuts of 2020. Read it.”Marieke Nijkamp

A fresh voice and perspective.Booklist, starred review

A unique and powerful Native American voice.BookPage, starred review

A brilliant, engaging debut.Kirkus Reviews, starred review

A fast-paced murder mystery.Publishers Weekly, starred review

A Lipan Apache Sookie Stackhouse for the teen set. Shelf-Awareness, starred review

A Texas teen comes face-to-face with a cousins ghost and vows to unmask the murderer.

ElatsoeEllie for shortlives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animalsmost importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered.

Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and it’s dark past. But will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started?

The breathtaking debut novel from Darcie Little Badger features an asexual, Apache teen protagonist — and combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, and fantasy elements, in one of the most-talked-about books in years.