Gods of Jade and Shadow Classics_Gift_Guide Elsie hears the sirens outside

Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment

Determination meets dance in this New York Times bestselling memoir by the history-making ballerina Misty Copeland

After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol

Now Slawson is ready to cement everything she’s learned into a book

Though they were written millennia ago

Gods of Jade and Shadow Classics_Gift_Guide Elsie hears the sirens outsideThe Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life changing journey in this dark, one of a kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and it's like nothing you've read before.Bustle NEBULA AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR Tordotcom The New York Public Library