num_pages: 480
description: A sensual novel Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere food is fate politics are broken and love awaits. Everyone in Popisho was born with a little something The local name for it was cors. Magic but more than magic. A gift nah? Yes. From the gods: a thing that felt so inexpressibly your own.Somewhere far away-- or maybe right nearby-- lies an archipelago called Popisho. A place of stunning beauty and incorrigible mischief destiny and mystery it is also a place in need of change.Xavier Redchoose is the macaenus of his generation anointed by the gods to make each resident one perfect meal when the time is right. Anise his long lost love is on a march toward reckoning with her healing powers. The governors daughter Sonteine is getting married her father demanding a feast out of turn. And graffiti messages from an unknown source are asking hard questions. A storm is brewing. Before it comes before the end of the day this wildly imaginative narrative will take us across the islands their history and into the lives of unforgettable characters.
language: English
title: Popisho
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux