When she opens it there are words written on pages inside. In their ruined home she stumbles upon a secret compartment in which she finds a strange rectangular object. When she is nine, Sefia returns home one day to find her father brutally murdered. Her mother dies mysteriously when Sefia is six. Sefia's mother taught her the basics of reading when she was too young to understand the strange shapes and sounds of letters as anything more than a game. She never saw other children or even other adults, with the exception of her Aunt Nin, a woman with a singular talent for picking locks. When she was little, Sefia's parents were secretive, living apart from others on a lonely hilltop shrouded in mist. Sefia, the young protagonist, lives in the land of Kelanna where people have never seen a book and don’t know what reading is. At its core Traci Chee's enchanting debut novel is a book about the magical act of reading.
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