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When They Burned the Butterfly : A Novel by Wen-yi Lee (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-101250369452
ISBN-139781250369451
eBay Product ID (ePID)21080599260
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhen They Burned the Butterfly : a Novel
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicFantasy / Dark Fantasy, Fantasy / Historical, Lgbt / General
GenreFiction
AuthorWen-Yi Lee
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2025-031683
ReviewsPraise for Wen-Yi Lee and The Dark We Know "A dark and compelling supernatural mystery buoyed by earnestly-written, queer-centric characters. I am enthralled!"--Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author "Heralds the arrival of a rare and exciting literary talent."--Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author "Gorgeous prose, palpable atmosphere, and intricate character work."--Allison Saft, New York Times bestselling author "A knife-sharp excavation... left me breathless."--Trang Thanh Tran, New York Times bestselling author "Eerie, introspective, and beautifully atmospheric."--Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author
SynopsisIn 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 schoolgirl Adeline Siow has never needed more company than the flame she can summon at her fingertips. But when her mother dies in a house fire with a butterfly seared onto her skin and Adeline hunts down a girl she saw in a back-alley barfight--a girl with a butterfly tattoo--she discovers she's far from alone. Ang Tian is a Red Butterfly: one of a gang of girls who came from nothing, sworn to a fire goddess and empowered to wreak vengeance on the men that abuse and underestimate them. Adeline's mother led a double life as their elusive patron, Madam Butterfly. Now that she's dead, Adeline's bloodline is the sole thing sustaining the goddess. Between her search for her mother's killer and the gang's succession crisis, Adeline becomes quickly entangled with the girls' dangerous world, and even more so with the charismatic Tian. But no home lasts long around here. Ambitious and paranoid neighbor gangs hunt at the edges of Butterfly territory, and bodies are turning up in the red light district suffused with a strange new magic. Adeline may have found her place for once, but with the streets changing by the day, it may take everything she is to keep it.
LC Classification NumberPR9570.S53L4653 2025
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