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    'Spin The Dawn' Stitches Up A Fabulous Fantasy

    Elizabeth Lim's new young adult novel follows a girl who disguises herself as a boy and sets off for the emperor's court in place of her ailing father, who's been summoned as an imperial tailor.
    by Caitlyn Paxson Jul 15, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Knopf Books for Young Readers

    Maia Tamarin is the best tailor along the Great Spice Road. The problem is that girls aren't allowed to be tailors, so she has to hide her work behind the facade of her father's shop. And with her family torn apart by war and her father's illness, she's beginning to wonder if maybe it's time to give up on her talent and marry to save her family and secure her future.

    But all of that changes when her

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