Sorrow's Knot, Erin Bow

Sorrow's Knot
Erin Bow
ISBN: 9780545166669
Read January 12, 2014

YA/Fantasy, indigenous cultures in a world of dead shadows and the power to 'bind' with knots or words.

I can't really improve on the jacket copy without spoiling the story, and I find myself strangely averse to spoilers for any part of this story.  All I feel I can safely say is that Otter, Kestrel, and Cricket are caring friends, that family relationships can be both loving and twisted, and that this beautiful and unsettling story made me cry.

I find myself this next morning wanting to hug my mother and my grandmother.