Sorrow’s Knot (31 page)

Text copyright © 2013 by Erin Bow

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Bow, Erin.

Sorrow’s knot / Erin Bow. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Otter is a girl of the Shadowed People, a tribe of women, and she is born to be a binder, a woman whose power it is to tie the knots that bind the dead — but she is also destined to remake her world.

ISBN 978-0-545-16666-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Magic — Juvenile fiction. 2. Identity (Philosophical concept) — Juvenile fiction. 3. Identity (Psychology) — Juvenile fiction. 4. Knots and splices — Juvenile fiction. 5. Fate and fatalism — Juvenile fiction. [1. Magic — Fiction. 2. Identity — Fiction. 3. Fate and fatalism — Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.B67167Sor 2013

813.6 — dc23

2013007855

First edition, November 2013

Cover art © 2013 by Murilo Maciel

Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi and Jeannine Riske

e-ISBN 978-0-545-57800-4

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