Ash, Malinda Lo
Ash, Malinda Lo
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Ash

Author: Malinda Lo

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/08/2021


Synopsis

Cinderella retold

In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother.

Consumed with grief, she finds her only joy by the light of the dying hearth fire,

re-reading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the

fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and

dangerous fairy Sidhean, she begins to believe that her wish may be granted.

But the day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King’s royal Huntress, her heart begins to

change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their

friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash’s capacity for love—and

her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must

make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.

Entrancing and romantic, Ash is an empowering retelling of Cinderella about the

connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation

can come from even the deepest grief.

Author Bio

Malinda Lo is the critically acclaimed author of several young adult novels, including A Line in the Dark, which was a Kirkus Best YA Book of 2017 and one of Vulture's 10 Best YA Books of 2017. Her novel Ash, a lesbian retelling of Cinderella, was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award, the Andre Norton Award for YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and was a Kirkus Best Book for Children and Teens. She has been a three-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Malinda's nonfiction has been published by the New York Times Book Review, NPR, the Huffington Post, The Toast, the Horn Book, and the anthologies Here We Are, How I Resist, and Scratch. She lives in Massachusetts with her wife.

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