THINGS THEY LOST 6-33-RT487VE Spanning the three days prior

Spanning the three days prior to the wake

Looking back at the last 500 years

but the sisters' unshakeable devotion to one another

Their lives--imperfect

Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses

THINGS THEY LOST 6-33-RT487VE Spanning the three days priorAyosa is a wandering spirit joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who teach her to dance and wail at the death news; the Jolly Annas, cruel birds who cover their solitude with spiteful laughter; the milkman, who never greets Ayosa and whose milk tastes of mud; and Sindano, the kind owner of