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NASEEM JAMNIA
- The Bruising of Qilwa
- …
- The Bruising of Qilwa
centering marginalized voices & EXPERIENCES IN SPECULATIVE FICTION
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NASEEM JAMNIA
- The Bruising of Qilwa
- …
- The Bruising of Qilwa
centering marginalized voices & EXPERIENCES IN SPECULATIVE FICTION
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NASEEM JAMNIA IS FIERCE AND DANGEROUS—IN ALL THE BEST WAYS.
David Anthony Durham
award-winning author of The Acacia Trilogy
Pina’s first trip to summer camp is a chance to escape her overbearing parents and finally go on an adventure with her best friend, Jo. But Camp Clear Skies hides a secret: a clearing in the deep woods the older kids call “the Glade.” After falling asleep here, Pina and Jo are able to enter one another’s dreams, transforming into superheroes and knights in shining armor, fighting back their nightmares in epic adventures.
At first, the friends think they’ve discovered a secret more exciting than any video game—until Pina’s nightmares start leaking out into waking life. Worse, something seems to have followed them back from those dreams…and whatever it is, it’s taking over Jo. Jo has always been the superhero in their friendship, but Pina can’t just abandon them to their fate.
To save her friend, Pina journeys deeper into the Glade than she ever has before, facing the worst of her own fears and Jo’s. There, she must confront the consciousness trying to steal her friend’s body and learn what happened twenty years ago that shut down Camp Clear Skies and changed the Glade forever.
ON MAY 27, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU DREAM FOR.
finalist for the crawford, locus, & world fantasy awards
"I loved this gorgeous book about blood magic, chosen family and refugees in a hostile city. Naseem Jamnia has created a rich, complex world in a very short space. You should definitely savor it."
— Charlie Jane Anders, award-winning author of All the Birds in the Sky and the Unstoppables triology
A nonbinary, aroace, refugee doctor encounters a magical plague in their new home and must use their taboo magic to find the culprit—before the government cracks down on all the migrants in the city. A slice-of-life fantasy novella introducing a queer- and transnormative, Persian-inspired secondary world.
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