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For fans of The Night Circus and Station 11, a lyrical and absorbing debut occur a world included in water. Like a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead with their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her behalf island, she's 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 in one archipelago to the next, entertaining in exchange for sustenance. In a global divided between those inhabiting the mainland ("landlockers") and those who float on the sea ("damplings"), loneliness has become a way of life for North and Callanish, until a sudden storm offshore brings change to both their lives - offering them a new understanding of the world they stay in and the consequences of the past, while restoring hope within an unexpected future. Inspired in part by Scottish myths and fairytales, The Gracekeepers tells today's story of your irreparably changed world: one that harbors the same isolation and sadness, but also joys and marvels of our very own age.

Category: Magical Realism