Born in a Red Canoe

An aus­pi­cious comet flies over­head as Purslane’s moth­er dies giv­ing birth to her in a red canoe. At least that’s what her father tells her. As she grows, Purslane doesn’t show signs of a super­nat­ur­al gift bestowed by the comet, so her father becomes enraged and sells her to a farmer. Purslane escapes and begins a soli­tary search for her mother’s peo­ple. On her mag­i­cal and per­ilous jour­ney, she enters por­tals of the dead, where she unrav­els the lost secrets of her birth, her moth­er, and her true identity …