Description: Advance praise for The Girl in the Tower "[Katherine] Arden's lush, lyrical writing cultivates an intoxicating, visceral atmosphere, and her marvelous sense of pacing carries the novel along at a propulsive clip. A masterfully told story of folklore, history, and magic with a spellbinding heroine at the heart of it all." -- Booklist Praise for Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale "Arden's debut novel has the cadence of a beautiful fairy tale but is darker and more lyrical." --The Washington Post "A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up." --Naomi Novik, bestselling author of Uprooted "Stunning . . . will enchant readers from the first page . . . with an irresistible heroine who wants only to be free of the bonds placed on her gender and claim her own fate." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Vasya [is] a clever, stalwart girl determined to forge her own path in a time when women had few choices." --The Christian Science Monitor "Utterly bewitching . . . an immersive, earthy story of folk magic, faith, and hubris, peopled with vivid, dynamic characters." -- Booklist (starred review)

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