The River Has Roots

The hugely anticipated solo debut of New York Times bestselling author and Hugo Award winner Amal El-Mohtar, a story of two sisters separated by worlds, desires, and even death, who never let go of their love.

What the town of Thistleford gained from its proximity to Faerie was obvious—prosperity, merriment, uncommonly good weather. What it lost was negligible—the cost of doing business. Until it wasn’t.

An enchanting story of two sisters, heirs to an extraordinary stewardship on the edge of Faerie, and what happens when one of them falls in love with someone from the land beyond…

About the Author

New York Times bestseller author AMAL EL-MOHTAR is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism. Her stories and poems have appeared in magazines including Tor.com, Fireside Fiction, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, Stone Telling, and Mythic Delirium; anthologies including The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (2017), The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (2016), Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (2014), and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011); and in her own collection, The Honey Month (2010). She is co-author, with Max Gladstone, of the NYT bestselling and multiple award-winning This is How You Lose the Time War. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, NPR Books and on Tor.com. She has been the New York Times's science fiction and fantasy columnist since February 2018, and she is represented by DongWon Song of HMLA.