The House in the Cerulean Sea

This book was beautiful. It's not necessarily a YA novel, but it involves children and the tone is very gentle. It's about magical children being stripped from their families or taken from the streets and put in schools to assimilate them with the rest of society. If that sounds familiar, it's because it was inspired by the similarly horrific tragedy of the indigenous children of Canada. The book has been criticized by some as cultural appropriation for the setup. But in and of itself, the book is beautifully written with heartwarming and -wrenching events and includes hope for a better future and a wonderfully gentle gay romantic subplot. It made me leak tears. This book won the 2021 Mythopoeic Award last year.

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