{"product_id":"9781250369420","title":"Where Rivers Made the Gods","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY AND WILL BE RELEASED ON 27 JULY \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e2027\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReturn to a city of warring gangs, blazing fire, and fading gods in the sequel to Wen-yi Lee's acclaimed adult fantasy debut - a fierce historical fantasy that reads like Silvia Moreno-Garcia meets Fonda Lee, with the feverish intensity of R. F. Kuang's Poppy War trilogy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath cannot stop love - or change.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSingapore, 1975: A city in remaking. Rivers scourged. Cemeteries dug up. Islands moving between ships from a fallen Saigon. Nothing stops progress-except the vessel of a fire goddess, who wants to bring back the dead.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIris Yen Wan, haunted and homeless, uses her ghosts to locate corpses for a gravedigger. Then she stumbles upon an apartment where a girl with butterfly tattoos has been preserved for two years. When Iris goes near, the corpse's eyes open. Now Adeline Siow, the madly grieving Madam Butterfly, is offering Iris a room, hoping that her murdered lover will wake again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut Iris's new home comes with strange and bloody strings. Shapeshifters and girls with fire follow Iris in the streets. A death god's resentful son visits every night. In the industrial heart of the city, a crucible burns where godless men kill to touch magic once more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd within the haunted apartment, a dangerous attraction stirs amidst the perpetually burning candles. With it grows the fear that Ang Tian might never truly come back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOr worse, that she might - and bring something inhuman along with her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lee, Wen-Yi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48708084236542,"sku":"9781250369420","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/1532\/4335\/files\/Where_Rivers_Made_Gods.png?v=1791602458","url":"https:\/\/wanderingraccoonbooks.com\/products\/9781250369420","provider":"Wandering Raccoon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}