Gypsum LaZelle had nearly given up. Sheād already watched her two older siblings experience the transitionāthe 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 fatherā¦But one day, alone at home wither family away, Gypsum falls terribly ill. And when the symptoms pass, something has changed. Something sheās dreamed of for such a long timeāand suddenly, isnāt ready for at all.
āOne of the most original and important writers of fantasy working in America today.āāThe New York Review of Science Fiction
Gypsum LaZelle had nearly given up. Sheād already watched her two older siblings experience the transitionāthe 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 fatherā¦But one day, alone at home wither family away, Gypsum falls terribly ill. And when the symptoms pass, something has changed. Something sheās dreamed of for such a long timeāand suddenly, isnāt ready for at all.
āOne of the most original and important writers of fantasy working in America today.āāThe New York Review of Science Fiction