Michael Barnes
I always enjoy reading the Wayward Children novellas and this one is an origin story for one of the children we have encounted before - Nadezhda 'Nadya' a drowned girl who I first read about in Beneath the Sugar Sky (which ends happily for Nadya returning to her Belyyreka, a water world).
A story of Mother Russia, turtles and not thinking you know what people want because they were born missing the lower part of her right arm.
I always enjoy reading the Wayward Children novellas and this one is an origin story for one of the children we have encounted before - Nadezhda 'Nadya' a drowned girl who I first read about in Beneath the Sugar Sky (which ends happily for Nadya returning to her Belyyreka, a water world).
A story of Mother Russia, turtles and not thinking you know what people want because they were born missing the lower part of her right arm.