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<p><b>Winner of the 2020 Crawford Award!</b><br><b>Winner of the 2021 Hugo Award!</b><br><b>A Hugo Award-Winning Series!<br><br>A 2021 Locus Award Finalist<br>A 2021 Ignyte Award Finalist<br>A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist</b><br><b>A <i>Book Riot</i> Best Debut Fantasy of All Time<br><br></b><b>"Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful... <i>The Empress of Salt and Fortune</i> is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."—NPR</b><br><br><b>"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today."—Taylor Jenkins Reid on<i> Siren Queen</i></b><br><br><b>A <i>Book Riot</i> Must Read Book of 2023 | A 2020 ALA Booklist Top Ten SF/F Debut | A <i>Book Riot </i>Must-Read Fantasy of 2020 | </b><b>A <i>Paste</i> Most Anticipated Novel of 2020 | A <i>Library Journal </i>Debut of the Month | </b><b>A <i>Buzzfeed</i> Must-Read Fantasy Novel of Spring 2020 | A <i>Washington Post</i> Best SFF of the Year So Far Pick</b><br><br><b>Named <i>Book Riot</i>'s Best Book Cover of 2020<br><br></b><b>Named a Best of 2020 Pick for <i>NPR </i>| <i>Library Journal</i> | <i>NYPL </i>| <i>Chicago Public Library</i> | <i>The Austen Chronicle </i>| <i>Autostraddle</i><br></b><br><b>With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's <i>The Empress of Salt and Fortune</i> is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.</b><br><br>A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully.<br><br>Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.<br><br>At once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative de