To keep her close, Rose’s mother lied and told her she had been born of the obedient and pliable East. It is said that North-born babies are wild, unpredictable, intelligent, and destined to break their mothers' hearts because they all leave hearth and home to travel to the far ends of the earth. Nymah Rose, the last daughter of eight siblings born to a poor mapmaker and his superstitious wife, was a North-born baby. In the rural villages of Norway, there is an ancient belief that children inherit the qualities of the direction in which they are born. In solving that mystery, she finds love, discovers her purpose, and realizes her travels have only just begun.Īs fresh and original as only the best fantasy can be, East is a novel retelling of the classic tale "East of the Sun and West of the Moon," told in the tradition of Robin McKinley and Gail Carson Levine. The bear takes Rose to a distant castle, where each night she is confronted with a mystery. So when an enormous white bear mysteriously shows up and asks her to come away with him, she readily agrees. Rose has always felt out of place in her family.
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