The River Has Roots

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Follow the river Liss to Thistleford, a small town perched on the border of Faerie, where two sisters are bound together by love, fate, and a promise that refuses to stay buried. As the magical current carries their story from the luminous realm of the Fae into the tightening, increasingly mundane world of humans, the sisters confront forces that would separate, possess, and profit from what they cannot control. Blending faerie wonder with a sharp, cautionary edge, this feminist tale exposes the corrosive consequences of greed and the ways power tries to rewrite women’s lives—before the river’s roots decide what can and cannot be undone. Amal El-Mohtar’s lyrical, myth-tinged storytelling turns folklore into a haunting meditation on autonomy, devotion, and the stubborn, living ties that outlast death.

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