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by Alex Jennings


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"Funny, wild, witty, and profound."?Victor LaValle "A wild and wonderful debut, teeming with music, family and art."--New York Times "Magical, lyrical, gritty, otherworldly...hype like Bayou Classic in the 90s."--P. Djl Clark One of the Best Fantasy Books of 2022: New York Times; Oprah Daily; Vulture; Gizmodo; Boston Public Library A fun and fantastical love letter to New Orleans unfolds when a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song in this wildly imaginative debut.

Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. To Perilous Graves, it's simply home. Perry knows Nola's rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. So when the city's Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry knows trouble is afoot. Nine songs of power have escaped from the piano that maintains the city's beat, and without them, Nola will fail. Unwilling to watch his home be destroyed, Perry will sacrifice everything to save it. But a storm is brewing, and the Haint of All Haints is awake. Nola's time might be coming to an end.

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  • Title The Ballad of Perilous Graves
  • Author Alex Jennings
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Redhook
  • Date 2023-01-17
  • Features Maps
  • ISBN 9780759557208 / 0759557209
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.6 x 1.9 in (19.81 x 14.22 x 4.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, New Orleans (La.)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

About the author

Alex Jennings is a teacher, author, and performer living in New Orleans. His writing has appeared in strangehorizons.com, podcastle, The Peauxdunque Review, Obsidian Lit, the Locus Award-winning Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler, and in numerous anthologies.

His debut collection, Here I Come and Other Stories was released in 2012. He also serves as MC and co-producer of Dogfish, a monthly literary readings series. He is a graduate of Clarion West (2003) and the University of New Orleans. He was born in Wiesbaden (Germany) and raised in Gaborone (Botswana), Paramaribo (Surinam), and Tunis (Tunisia) as well as the United States. He is an afternoon person.

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