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    Trouble the Saints: A Novel
    Trouble the Saints: A Novel
    Trouble the Saints: A Novel
    Audiobook13 hours

    Trouble the Saints: A Novel

    Written by Alaya Dawn Johnson

    Narrated by Neil Shah and Shayna Small

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    "Narrators Shayna Small and Neil Shah transport listeners to 1940s New York in this dark fantasy set against a backdrop of racial tension and brewing war...Both narrators also excel at a range of accents, making this audiobook a fully immersive experience." -- AudioFile Magazine

    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.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

    “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

    Editor's Note

    A reluctant assassin…

    A scintillating blend of historical fiction and magical realism brings this story of a reluctant assassin in late 1930s New York to vivid life. Phyllis works for a local mob boss as a knife-wielding enforcer, but she yearns for a different life. The ghosts of the past, however, have other ideas for her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJul 21, 2020
    ISBN9781250755278
    Author

    Alaya Dawn Johnson

    ALAYA DAWN JOHNSON has been recognized for her short fiction and YA novels, winning the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i,” which also appears in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (2015), guest edited by Joe Hill. Her debut young adult novel, The Summer Prince, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Her follow up, Love Is the Drug, won the Andre Norton Award in 2015. A native of Washington, D.C., Johnson is currently based in Oaxaca, having finished her masters degree in Mesoamerican studies at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

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    • 2/5
      Nothing like the description and not a well developed story. More like a horny fever dream with most parts hazy.