Charming and lyrical, The Fairies of Sadieville continues Alex Bledsoe's widely-praised contemporary fantasy series, about the song-wielding fairy descendants living in modern-day Appalachia.
"This is real." Three small words on a film canister found by graduate students Justin and Veronica, who discover a long-lost silent movie from more than a century ago. The startlingly realistic footage shows a young girl transforming into a winged being. Looking for proof behind this claim, they travel to the rural foothills of Tennessee to find Sadieville, where it had been filmed.
Soon, their journey takes them to Needsville, whose residents are hesitant about their investigation, but Justin and Veronica are helped by Tucker Carding, who seems to have his own ulterior motives. When the two students unearth a secret long hidden, everyone in the Tufa community must answer the most important question of their entire lives — what would they be willing to sacrifice in order to return to their fabled homeland of Tír na nÓg?
"Imagine a book somewhere between American Gods and Faulkner. Absolutely worth your time." – Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author
Enter the captivating world of the fae in Alex Bledsoe's Tufa novels
The Hum and the Shiver
Wisp of a Thing
Long Black Curl
Chapel of Ease
Gather Her Round
Sadieville
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- ISBN: 9781466891562
- File size: 3550 KB
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- ISBN: 9781466891562
- File size: 3573 KB
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- English
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March 5, 2018
In Bledsoe’s multilayered sixth contemporary fantasy tale of the Tufa, exiled fae who long ago settled in the Appalachians, the discovery of a long-lost silent film offers up clues to their forgotten origins, as well as a potential way home. In the present day, grad students Justin Johnson and Veronica Lopez stumble across impossibly realistic century-old footage of a woman becoming a fairy. They follow the trail to the former mining town of Sadieville, Tenn., which vanished without a trace. In doing so, they find a portal leading to the Tufa homeland, which sparks debate among those who yearn to return after so many years in exile. As always, Bledsoe infuses his setting with a rich sense of location, atmosphere, and history, underscored by folk music; the secret tragedies of the Tufa unfold over multiple eras before returning to the present. A thought-provoking discussion of race in America’s South—Justin is African-American, Veronica is Puerto Rican—further complicates the narrative and challenges expectations, though at the end it feels a little unfinished. Bledsoe’s series continues to enthrall with complex and nuanced stories. Agent: Marlene Stringer, Stringer Literary.
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