A Fistful Of Sky
May 2004 · Sold by Penguin
4.3star
7 reviews
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368
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About this ebook
Gypsum LaZelle had nearly given up. She’d already watched her two older siblings experience the transition—the sudden, debilitating process that turned them from ordinary children into mages, gifted spellcasters like their beautiful mother. Perhaps she was a late bloomer, she thought until her younger siblings came into their powers as well. Now, at twenty, Gypsum fears that she must accept her fate: a mundane life without magic.
She can live with being ordinary, an outsider. After all, someone in the family had to take after her father…But one day, alone at home wither family away, Gypsum falls terribly ill. And when the symptoms pass, something has changed. Something she’s dreamed of for such a long time—and suddenly, isn’t ready for at all.
“One of the most original and important writers of fantasy working in America today.”—The New York Review of Science Fiction
She can live with being ordinary, an outsider. After all, someone in the family had to take after her father…But one day, alone at home wither family away, Gypsum falls terribly ill. And when the symptoms pass, something has changed. Something she’s dreamed of for such a long time—and suddenly, isn’t ready for at all.
“One of the most original and important writers of fantasy working in America today.”—The New York Review of Science Fiction
Ratings and reviews
4.3
7 reviews
Signe Slavensky
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June 26, 2014
Only the second book I've read, but if this keeps up, she'll end up on my fave list. Great matter-of-fact magic, great characters.
Emily Fox
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November 26, 2013
I love this book. I have read it about a hundred times and each time I love it more.
About the author
Over the past 24 years, Nina Kiriki Hoffman has sold novels, juvenile and media tie-in books, short story collections, and more than 200 short stories. Her works have been finalists for the Nebula, World Fantasy, Mythopoeic, Sturgeon, and Endeavour awards. Her first novel, The Thread That Binds the Bones, won a Stoker Award. Nina's YA novel Spirits That Walk in Shadow and her science-fiction novel Catalyst were published in 2006.
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