Chee’s debut is an intricate, multilayered reading experience, but the author avoids leading readers along too transparently, trusting them to puzzle together the pieces surrounding the mystery of Sefia’s past. The book Sefia carries, which initially seems to be filled with stories and myths, becomes increasingly mysterious when she learns that the people and accounts detailed within are true. She is joined in her quest by a mute, nameless boy, whom she rescues from a life of forced cage fighting. Books, reading, and writing are unheard of in the land of Kelanna, but Sefia is certain that this book holds the answers she seeks. Determined to learn the truth about her past and the rectangular object she’s spent her life hiding, Sefia eventually discovers that the item-bound paper covered in symbols-is a book. After 15-year-old orphan Sefia is separated from her aunt, she sets out on a rescue mission.
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