The Weight of Feathers
by Anna-Marie McLemore
"Two feuding performer families. One impossible love. Feathers versus scales."
The Palomas perform as mermaids; the Corbeaus walk trees with wings on their backs; the two families have hated each other for twenty years. When Lace Paloma is saved by a Corbeau boy after a disaster, the feud — and the magic threaded through both families — begins to unravel. McLemore's debut is Romeo and Juliet dipped in magical realism.
Worth knowing
If you liked The Night Circus. McLemore has since become one of YA’s most decorated magical realists.
