“Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime
story...in a word: awesome.” —N.K. Jemisin, New York Times
bestselling author of The Fifth Season
The dangerous magic
of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The
Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling
novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City,
where an assassin falls in love and tries to change her fate at the
dawn of World War II.
Amid the whir of
city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering
underworld of Manhattan, where she’s hired to use her knives to
strike fear among its most dangerous denizens.
Ten years later,
Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything—not just her own past, and
Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams.
Still, the ghosts
from her past are always by her side—and history has appeared on
her doorstep to threaten the people she keeps in her heart. And so
Phyllis will have to make a harrowing choice, before it’s too
late—is there ever enough blood in the world to wash clean
generations of injustice?
Trouble the
Saints is a dazzling, daring novel—a magical love story, a
compelling exposure of racial fault lines—and an altogether
brilliant and deeply American saga.