110 pages • 3 hours read
Silvia Moreno-GarciaGods of Jade and Shadow
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Introduction
Gods of Jade and Shadow
- Genre: Fiction; historical fantasy
- Originally Published: 2019
- Reading Level/Interest: College/Adult
- Structure/Length: 35 chapters; approx. 384 pages; approx. 11 hours, 4 minutes on audio
- Protagonist/Central Conflict: It’s the Jazz Age, and Casiopea Tun dreams of a life she can call her own as she cleans the floors of her grandfather’s house. When she accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death from a wooden box in her grandfather’s room, Casiopea must help him recover the throne from his brother. Success could make all her dreams come true, but failure ultimately means her demise.
- Potential Sensitivity Issues: Colorism; violence; animal death; domestic abuse; human sacrifice; misogyny; ritualistic self-harm
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Author
- Bio: Born in 1981; Mexican Canadian novelist, short story writer, editor, and publisher; born in Mexico; moved to Canada in 2004; holds a master’s degree in science and technology studies from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver; serves as publisher of Innsmouth Free Press, an imprint devoted to weird fiction; co-author of several books on HP Lovecraft; columnist for The Washington Post since 2019
- Other Works: Signal to Noise (2015); Certain Dark Things (2016); The Beautiful Ones (2017); Mexican Gothic (2020)
- Awards: Nebula Award Finalist (2019)
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