Effie divinity 212/24/2023 I’ve got no lullabies, no loving nicknames, and zero turns of phrase to confirm her identity. If what the network taught me about how a siren listens for her ancestors ever worked, I still wouldn’t know when I’d found her. We lived in neighboring states my whole life, she in Oregon and me in Cali, but we never met. Unless you’re a siren.Īnyway, I have another problem: I wouldn’t know Gramma’s voice if I heard it. It doesn’t really matter when what the world believes about you isn’t a matter of life and death. I guess it depends on what movie or song or TV show shaped which decade. Do sirens’ voices return to the body of water near where they were born, or close to where they died? Do sprites have a physical body and are they just too quick to see, or are their forms entirely ethereal? Do elokos have to be self-obsessed phonies, or have I just been lucky to know that exact type? The problem with mythos is that it varies too much for any one interpretation to be believed. Even if sirens’ voices really do return to the water, they probably don’t go to chlorinated bodies of it. I mean, I’m at an indoor pool with all its colorfully elaborate water features that nobody is enjoying because my play-sister’s the only person doing laps. Here, Portland not here, the Southwest Community Center, specifically. If the mythos is to be believed-and as far as any nonmagic people are concerned, most of it isn’t-I should be able to hear my grandmother here. The story goes that sirens originated by the water, that once we used our calls to damn seamen, and that when we die, our voices return to the sea. The problem is I don’t know exactly what I’m listening for. It was one of the first things I learned when I finally found “the network,” so despite my lack of results thus far, I close my eyes now too. It’s never made a difference but it’s part of the ritual, and I guess it must mean something that I did it even before I knew there was a way for living sirens to listen for their dead. I always close my eyes, and today’s no exception. I’d stand on the cold sand, burrowing my toes beneath the surface as though there’d be some warmth there, and I’d listen. Back home I went to the beach on more than one cloudy day. It feels redundant to be at the pool on a rainy Saturday, even though it’s spring, and even though it’s Portland, but maybe I’m just more of a California snob than I want to be. To save themselves from drowning, it’s only Tavia and Effie’s unbreakable sisterhood that proves to be the strongest magic of all. Soon, nothing in Portland, Oregon, seems safe. Together, these best friends must navigate through the perils of high school’s junior year.īut everything changes in the aftermath of a siren murder trial that rocks the nation, and Tavia accidentally lets out her magical voice at the worst possible moment. Meanwhile, Effie is fighting her own family struggles, pitted against literal demons from her past. In a society determined to keep her under lock and key, Tavia must hide her siren powers. Morrow’s A Song Below Water is the story for today’s readers ― a captivating modern fantasy about black sirens, friendship, and self-discovery set against the challenges of today’s racism and sexism. Morrow/ A Song Below Water, Mark Oshiro/ Each of Us a Desert, Lauren Shippen/A Neon Darkness thisĭC Comics panel: featuring Kami Garcia/ Teen Titans: Beast Boy-Teen Titans Raven, Sarah Kuhn/ Shadow of the Batgirl, Alex Sanchez/ You Brought Me the Ocean, Maggie Stiefvater/ Swamp Thing: Twin Branches, Laurie Halse Anderson/ Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed, Danielle Paige/ Mera: Tidebreaker and so much more.įor more information please visit follow Miami Book Fair #MiamiBookFair2020 #MBF2020 #MiamiBookFairOnline.]īethany C. Own Your Magic: TJ Klune/ The House in the Cerulean Sea & The Extraordinaries, Bethany C. Twisted Tales: Liz Brasewell/ Straight on Till Morning, Jen Calonita/ Conceal, Don’t Feel, Elizabeth Lim/ So This is Love Visit and register for free and enjoy these conversations for free: They are all gathering together from all over the world in conversation, all virtual, all safe, all unique, all free between Nov. Morrow is one of more than 300 authors participating in the 2020 Miami Book Fair. [Note from Frolic: This excerpt from Bethany Morrow’s A Song Below Wateris a partnership between Miami Book Fair and Frolic.
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