num_pages: 288
description: A queer retelling of Snow White and Rose Red in which teenage twins battle evil religious extremists to save their loves and their circus family. Twins Rosie and Ivory have grown up at their ringmaster mothers knee and after years on the road theyre returning to Port End the closest place to home they know. Yet something has changed in the bustling city: fundamentalist flyers paper the walls and preachers fill the squares warning of shadows falling over the land. The circus prepares a triumphant homecoming show full of lights and spectacle that could chase away even the darkest shadow. But during Rosies tightrope act disaster strikes. In this lush sensuous novel interwoven with themes of social justice and found family its up to Ivory and her magician lovewith the help of a dancing bearto track down an evil priest and save their circus family before its too late.
language: English
title: The Circus Rose
publisher: Clarion Books