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Màgòdiz

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Màgòdiz (Anishinabe language): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country.

Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one living remembers. The small surviving human population scavenges to get by; they cannot read or write and lack the tools or knowledge to rebuild. The only ones with any power are the mindless Enforcers, controlled by the Madjideye, a faceless, formless spiritual entity that has infiltrated the world to subjugate the human population.

A'tugwewinu is the last survivor of the Andwanikadjigan. On the run from the Madjideye with her lover, Bel, a descendant of the Warrior Nation, they seek to share what the world has forgotten: stories. In Pasakamate, both Shkitagen, the firekeeper of his generation, and his life's heart, Nitawesi, whose hands mend bones and cure sickness, attempt to find a home where they can raise children in peace without fear of slavers or rising waters. In Zhong yang, Riordan wheels around just fine, leading xir gang of misfits in hopes of surviving until until the next meal. However, Elite Enforcer H-09761 (Yun Seo, who was abducted as a child, then tortured and brainwashed into servitude) is determined to arrest Riordan for theft of resources and will stop at nothing to bring xir to the Madjideye. In a ruined world, six people collide, discovering family and foes, navigating friendship and love, and reclaiming the sacredness of the gifts they carry.

With themes of resistance, of ceremony as the conduit between realms, of transcending gender, Magodiz is a powerful and visionary reclamation that Two-Spirit people always have and always will be vital to the cultural and spiritual legacy of their communities.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 12, 2022
      Calderón’s debut, a fresh take on the classic epic fantasy fetch-quest, takes readers to a world reeling from ecological and informational collapse, and violently controlled by supernaturally evil Enforcers, where merely existing is an act rebellion. In the nuclear cataclysms that left Earth sunless and poisoned, almost all human knowledge has been forgotten, and the world has been invaded by evil Madjideye spirits that want nothing more than to destroy the old magicks. Against this dystopian backdrop, a storyteller, a healer, a firekeeper, an engineer, and a warrior—all Indigenous, disabled, and/or queer—find each other and together work to escape the relentless Enforcers and heal from the trauma of their pasts. When the band of heroes capture an Enforcer, they learn that the sum of their ancestral powers may be enough to send the evil away for good—if they can stay together, and alive, long enough. Calderón’s writing, elegantly infused with Anishinaabe stories and language, feels modern and urgent in its message, while being grounded in traditions old enough to touch the roots of a dying world and help regrow them. Fans of Rebecca Roanhorse will be especially thrilled.

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