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234 pp.
| Clarion |
June, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-0-547-64023-5$16.99
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4-6
Micay, an outcast in her Incan village because of a disfiguring facial scar, embarks on a pilgrimage to Sacred Sun City to ask to be healed; instead, she asks unselfishly for the drought to end and is chosen to become a shaman priestess. The narrator's formal voice is a little stilted and the pace is slow, but Micay is a sympathetic heroine.