Blue Beyond the Sea: A Novelette

Something calls from the wilderness, but we must choose to answer.Bavaria, 1108. Edigna flees an arranged marriage and creates a home in the hollow of a linden tree. She illuminates manuscripts for a nearby abbey, and as she becomes a legendary story told round fires, she begins to lose her grip on the physical world. She doesn't want to be only a story: She wants to be a body too. A magical short story, from the author of In the Great Quiet, that reimagines the medieval legend of Edigna of Puch as the original Rapunzel. Blue Beyond the Sea is a rewrite of the history of women in art, inspired by the surprising blue fragments of lapis lazuli found by archeologists in the remains of a medieval woman's teeth. It's grounded historical fiction with a dash of fabulism--perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab's Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale, and Susanna Clarke's Piranesi. A cloudshadow fell over the tree, so the eerie blue glow of dawn shaded the branches ash and smoke. I thought of that tale of a girl abandoned in a tower, the one with the coils of yellow hair trailing down like vines rooting into the earth. Maybe she hadn't been trapped there-maybe she'd climbed up herself.