num_pages: 288
description: In this story set in East Texas a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storytellers tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches the box is opened a fateful dare is made and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.
language: English
title: The Fifty Year Sword
publisher: Pantheon