Bits of String Too Small to Save

by Ruby Peru

Narrated by Ruby Peru

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Pub Date Dec 03 2024 | Archive Date Dec 12 2024

Sci Fi & Fantasy | Teens & YA

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Description

Ruby Peru’s, Bits of String Too Small to Save is a witty, classically illustrated fantasy for adults that asks: What’s the difference between animals and people? Magic and technology? A true home and a place to live? In 2021, Bits of String Too Small to Save was a New York City Big Book Award distinguished favorite. In the novel (now a dramatized, full-cast audiobook) innocent ElizabethAnn, her criminal genius Grandma, and their loyal sheepdog Jackson dive out of the postmodern police state of No Oaks, through a hidden portal, into the forested dystopia of Bumblegreen. There, ElizabethAnn must rescue this world from a terrible blight—or be executed as the cause of it. In the process, she investigates the disappearance of an ancient genderless magician, befriends a reluctant teenage queen, and rides a scheming talking monkey … all in order to restore Grandma’s scientific reputation and make this troubled land their new, true home.

The long-awaited release of the audio format for the book won the 2022 Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize. Narrated by the author herself and voiced by a wide cast, this full-cast recording brings the novel’s colorful, imaginative characters to life in fresh new ways—sure to delight dark fantasy readers of all ages.

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Advance Praise

"The author deepens the fantasy with unexpectedly thoughtful moments as ElizabethAnn and Dahlia gain believable strength and insight over the course of the book. . . A wildly imaginative, occasionally haunting fantasy anchored by strong, evolving female characters." –Kirkus Reviews

"Ruby Peru's freewheeling imagination enlivens her fantasy novel, Bits of String, tremendously. With a nod to Lewis Carroll, whose rabbit hole becomes her badger hole, Peru builds her narrative on an impressive array of colorful images, improbable characters, and a generous helping of charm." –John Berendt (best selling author: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The City of Falling Angels)

"In her amazing debut novel, Bits of String, writer Ruby Peru boggles and seduces with her marvelous imagery, humor, and storytelling until you find yourself in the middle of an irresistible world populated with exotic and oddly familiar creatures, human and otherwise. Before you know it, you are entwined and delighted to be so. A “must read!” for YA and adult readers alike." –Sarah Lovett (best-selling author: Dangerous Attachments; co-author: Blowback, with Valerie Plame)

"The author deepens the fantasy with unexpectedly thoughtful moments as ElizabethAnn and Dahlia gain believable strength and insight over the course of the book. . . A wildly imaginative...