**"I read _Stubborn Archivist_ in a ravenous gulp. It's stunning: so articulate about what it means to live between two languages and countries, tenderly unraveling the knots of unbelonging."** **-- Olivia Laing, author of _The_ _Lonely City_ and _Crudo_ For fans of _Chemistry_ and _Conversation
Archivist Wasp
โ Scribed by Nicole Kornher-Stace
- Publisher
- Small Beer Press;Big Mouth House
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Edition
- Second Big Mouth House edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
** Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books of 2015**
** Book Riot Best of 2015**
** Buzzfeed 32 Best Fantasy Novels of 2015**
ABC Best Books for Young Readers
** Los Angeles Times Summer Reading**
** Locus Recommended Reading**
Wasp's job is simple. Hunt ghosts. And every year she has to fight to remain Archivist. Desperate and alone, she strikes a bargain with the ghost of a supersoldier. She will go with him on his underworld hunt for the long-long ghost of his partner and in exchange she will find out more about his pre-apocalyptic world than any Archivist before her. And there is much to know. After all, Archivists are marked from birth to do the holy work of a goddess. They're chosen. They're special. Or so they've been told for four hundred years.
Archivist Wasp fears she is not the chosen one, that she won't survive the trip to the underworld, that the...
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