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WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD**
"Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime story...in a
word: awesome." --N.K. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of
The Fifth Season
The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical
exploration of The Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely
and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New
York City, where an assassin falls in love and tries to change her fate
at the dawn of World War II.
Amid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the
glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she's hired to use her knives
to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens.
Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything--not just her
own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams.
Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side--and history has
appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she keeps in her heart.
And so Phyllis will have to make a harrowing choice, before it's too
late--is there ever enough blood in the world to wash clean generations
of injustice?
Trouble the Saints is a dazzling, daring novel--a magical love story,
a compelling exposure of racial fault lines--and an altogether brilliant
and deeply American saga.
