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The Wise and the Wicked

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The Wise and the WickedRebecca Podos, Lambda Literary Award winning author of Like Water, returns with a lush, dark, and unforgettable story of the power of the past to shape our futures and the courage it takes to change them. Ruby Chernyavsky has been told the stories since she was a child: The women in her family, once possessed of great magical abilities to remake lives and stave off death itself, were forced to flee their Russian home for America in order to escape the

Rebecca Podos, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Like Water, returns with a lush, dark, and unforgettable story of the power of the past to shape our futures--and the courage it takes to change them.

Ruby Chernyavsky has been told the stories since she was a child: The women in her family, once possessed of great magical abilities to remake lives and stave off death itself, were forced to flee their Russian home for America in order to escape the fearful men who sought to destroy them.

Such has it always been, Ruby's been told, for powerful women.

Today, these stories seem no more real to Ruby than folktales, except for the smallest bit of power left in their blood: when each of them comes of age, she will have a vision of who she will be when she dies--a destiny as inescapable as it is inevitable.

Ruby is no exception, and neither is her mother, although she ran from her fate years ago, abandoning Ruby and her sisters. It's a fool's errand, because they all know the truth: there is no escaping one's Time.

Until Ruby's great-aunt Polina passes away, and, for the first time, a Chernyavsky's death does not match her vision. Suddenly, things Ruby never thought she'd be allowed to hope for--life, love, time--seem possible.

But as she and her cousin Cece begin to dig into the family's history to find out whether they, too, can change their fates, they learn that nothing comes without a cost. Especially not hope.

--ALA Booklist

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Published: 05/28/2019
ISBN: 9780062699022
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/08/2019
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2019
Booklist 04/01/2019 pg. 69
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2019
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2019 - Recommended - Readable
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2019 pg. 145
School Library Journal 05/01/2019 pg. 105
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average
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