Ash

by Malinda Lo

2010

Notes

A fey Cinderella story heavily inspired by fairy tales and mythology. Finalist in the LGBT Children's/Young Adult section of the Lambda Literary Awards for 2010

Description

Cinderella retold In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash's capacity for love-and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love. Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief.… (more)

Call number

Y LO

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2010)
Mythopoeic Awards (Finalist — Children's Literature — 2010)
Gaylactic Spectrum Award (Shortlist — Novel — 2010)
Otherwise Award (Long list — 2010)

Publication

London : Hodder Children's Books, 2010, c2009. 304 pages
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