Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Daniel José Older's
extraordinary YA urban fantasy about two teens who discover each other
while fighting for their diaspora community.
Almost sixteen years ago, Mateo Matisse's island homeland disappeared
into the sea. Weary and hopeless, the survivors of San Madrigal's
sinking escaped to New York.
While the rest of his tight-knit Brooklyn diaspora community dreams of
someday finding a way back home, Mateo--now a high school junior and
piano prodigy living with his two aunts (one who's alive, the other not
so much)--is focused on one thing: getting the attention of
locally-grown musical legend Gerval. Mateo finally gets his chance on
the night of the Grand Fete, an annual party celebrating the blended
culture of pirates, Cuban Santeros, and Sephardic Jews that created San
Madrigal all those centuries ago.
But the evil that sank their island has finally caught up with them, and
on the night of the celebration, Mateo's life is forever changed when he
witnesses a brutal murder by a person he thought he knew.
Suddenly Mateo is thrust into an ancient battle that spans years and
oceans. Deadly secrets are unraveled and Mateo awakens a power within
himself--a power that not only links him to the killer but could also
hold the key to unlocking the dark mystery behind his lost homeland.
From the author of the award-winning Shadowshaper Cypher series comes
the first novel in the Outlaw Saints duology--a brilliant story that
will transport readers to a world where magic, myth, and gods reign over
the streets of Brooklyn.
**Endorsed by Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians,
soon to be a series on Disney+.
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