When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

by Nghi Vo

When you love a thing too much, it is a special kind of pain to show it to others and to see that it is lacking.

There were a thousand thousand things to eat in Ahnfi, everything from sheep to horse to cavy to beaver, but Ho Thi Thao did not think she could eat a bite without getting a mouthful of the unsavory taste underneath, something that told her that this place was dying and that the rebirth would not come easy.