A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

by Arkady Martine

This book is for all the exiles: the displaced, the refugee, the stateless; the abandoned and the abandoner; those made desolate and those cast free.

Mahit couldn’t decide if she was horrified, proud, or simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued.

Uncivilized. Refusing to participate, like an animal or a child.