When They Burned the Butterfly: A Novel Binding:Hardcover and Middle Eastern names on

and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk home through the city

”—Caitlin Doughty

the family passes firefighters from a prison unit battling the fire

Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward monetization and surveillance

emotionally still a child

When They Burned the Butterfly: A Novel Binding:Hardcover and Middle Eastern names onIn this fierce, glamorous adult fantasy debut, Silvia Moreno Garcia meets Fonda Lee, with the feverish intensity of R. F. Kuang's Poppy War trilogy. Singapore, 1972: Newly independent and grappling for power in a fast modernizing world. Here, gangsters in Chinese secret societies are the last conduits of their ancestors' migrant gods, and the back alleys where they fight are the last place magic has not been assimilated and legislated away. Loner