A LOCUS AWARD FINLIST!
"Bardugo's latest is a must-listen, introducing a haunting, Yale-based
occult world populated with gloriously complicated characters... A
win-win-win, honestly." -- Paste, best audiobooks of 2019
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo
comes a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among
the Ivy League elite.
**This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
**
Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman
class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex
dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer
boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty,
she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some
might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is
offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigious
universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her?
Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her
mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret
societies. Their eight windowless "tombs" are the well-known haunts of
the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street's
biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more
extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper
with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on
the living.
Ninth House is the long-awaited adult debut by the beloved author of
Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows. Leigh Bardugo will take her
place alongside Lev Grossman and Deborah Harkness as one of the finest
practitioners of literary fantasy writing today.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
"Ninth House is the best fantasy novel I've read in years, because
it's about real people. Bardugo's imaginative reach is brilliant, and
this story--full of shocks and twists--is impossible to put down." -
Stephen King
"Ninth House is one of the best fantasy novels I've read in years.
This book is brilliant, funny, raw and utterly magnificent -- it's a
portal to a world you'll never want to leave." - Lev Grossman, New York
Timesbestselling author of The Magicians
"In this mesmerizing novel, Leigh Bardugo introduces us to Alex, a
high-school dropout who gets a free ride to Yale because of a unique
talent. Bardugo's New Haven is plausible and frightening, and I was one
rapt reader." - Charlaine Harris, bestselling author of the True Blood
series
