The River Has Roots

A beautiful book with an equally beautiful story, turning a classic murder ballad “The Two Sisters” into a more liberated and progressive tale.

There's not much I can say without just retelling the existing short tale, but I did want to highlight particularly enjoying the very active narrator and the use of literal, actual grammar as a magic system. I could read an endless amount more of El-Mohtar's writing of both as is.

A fairytale.