Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear - Seanan McGuire

Written by Seanan McGuire
Read by Barrie Kreinik
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Series: Wayward Children: Book 10
Publisher: Macmillan
Release date: January 7, 2025
Duration: 04:08:38

Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her.

Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she’d been missing from birth.

It was cumbersome; it was uncomfortable; it was wrong. It wasn’t her.

Frustrated and unable to express why, Nadya began to wander, until the day she fell through a door into Belyrreka, the Land Beneath the Lake—and found herself in a world of water, filled with child-eating amphibians, majestic giant turtles, and impossible ships that sailed as happily beneath the surface as on top. In Belyyreka, she found herself understood for who she was: a Drowned Girl, who had made her way to her real home, accepted by the river and its people.

But even in Belyyreka, there are dangers, and trials, and Nadya would soon find herself fighting to keep hold of everything she had come to treasure.

“As Barrie Kreinik narrates Book 10 in the Wayward Children series, listeners meet Nadya, a one-armed orphan who gets adopted. But even in her new home Nadya feels incomplete and “other.” Kreinik gives a stellar performance as a child who is desperate to understand her place. One day, Nadya goes wandering to the river, where she feels at home despite her missing arm. She tumbles through an underwater portal to the land of Belyyreka, where she’s accepted as one of the “drowned girls.” Listeners will revel in Nadya’s happiness and sense of purpose as expressed in Kreinik’s narration. Kreinik also captures Nadya’s conflict. Can she stay in Belyyreka with its magical talking creatures, or will her former life call her back?”—AudioFile