Clever and determined to live, Zhu blends in as a novice in a misty monastery, where the monks are forced to navigate between the harsh Mongol rulers of their land and the ragtag rebel army determined to oust that regime. Instead, the tenacious protagonist assumes the name and identity of her dead brother, Zhu Chongba, hoping that by doing so, she will also take on his foretold fate: to achieve the type of greatness that will span centuries. A fortune teller once told her that her life would amount to nothing, and those words seem about to come true. A genre in which anything is possible should be a genre in which every story is told, and fantasy is finally starting to live up to that billing.Ī creative reimagining of the founding of the Ming dynasty, this sweeping historical fantasy is set in 14th-century China, where a young girl is left for dead in her dusty, famine-stricken village in the Central Plains. She Who Became the Sun, the striking debut novel by Shelley Parker-Chan out July 20, makes it official: it's a very, very good time to be a fantasy fan.
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