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Barcode30053003806760
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoF LEE
Title When they burned the butterfly / Wen-Yi Lee.
Author Lee, Wen-Yi author.
CollectionNEW: Adult Fiction
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StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
 Paris-Bourbon30053003806760F LEE10/20/2025 Available

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Personal Name Lee, Wen-Yi author.
Title Statement When they burned the butterfly / Wen-Yi Lee.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Tor/Tor Publishing Group, 2025.
Physical Description 480 pages ; 22 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "Singapore, 1972: Newly independent and grappling for power in a fast-modernizing world. Here, gangsters in Chinese secret societies are the last conduits of their ancestors' migrant gods, and the back alleys where they fight are the last place magic has not been assimilated and legislated away. Loner schoolgirl Adeline Siow has never needed more company than the flame she can summon at her fingertips. But when her mother dies in a house fire with a butterfly seared onto her skin and Adeline hunts down a girl she saw in a back-alley barfight-a girl with a butterfly tattoo-she discovers she's far from alone. Ang Tian is a Red Butterfly: one of a gang of girls who came from nothing, sworn to a fire goddess and empowered to wreak vengeance on the men that abuse and underestimate them. Adeline's mother led a double life as their elusive patron, Madam Butterfly. Now that she's dead, Adeline's bloodline is the sole thing sustaining the goddess. Between her search for her mother's killer and the gang's succession crisis, Adeline becomes quickly entangled with the girls' dangerous world, and even more so with the charismatic Tian. But no home lasts long around here. Ambitious and paranoid neighbor gangs hunt at the edges of Butterfly territory, and bodies are turning up in the red light district suffused with a strange new magic. Adeline may have found her place for once, but with the streets changing by the day, it may take everything she is to keep it"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Inheritance and succession Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Goddesses Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Secrecy Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Secret societies Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Tattooing Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Young women Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Ability Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Magic Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Mothers Fiction. Death
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Singapore Fiction. Social life and customs 20th century
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Fantasy fiction lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Queer fiction. lcgft

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