THE NAMING SONG | Jedediah Berry

Name: THE NAMING SONG | Jedediah Berry
Start: 2024-09-30T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 5600 W. Lovers Lane #142, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75209

Schedule

Mon Sep 30 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

5600 W. Lovers Lane #142, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75209 | Dallas, TX

We are excited to host author Jedediah Berry in-store on Monday, September 30th with his book, The Naming Song.
A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro.
There's nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing
When the words went away, the world changed.
All meaning was lost, and every border fell. Monsters slipped from dreams to haunt the waking while ghosts wandered the land in futile reveries. Only with the rise of the committees of the named—Maps, Ghosts, Dreams, and Names—could the people stand against the terrors of the nameless wilds. They built borders around their world and within their minds, shackled ghosts and hunted monsters, and went to war against the unknown.
For one unnamed courier of the Names Committee, the task of delivering new words preserves her place in a world that fears her. But after a series of monstrous attacks on the named, she is forced to flee her committee and seek her long-lost sister. Accompanied by a patchwork ghost, a fretful monster, and a nameless animal who prowls the shadows, her search for the truth of her past opens the door to a revolutionary future—for the words she carries will reshape the world.
The Naming Song is a book of deep secrets and marvelous discoveries, strange adventures and dangerous truths. It's the story of a world locked in a battle over meaning. Most of all, it's the perfect fantasy for anyone who's ever dreamed of a stranger, freer, more magical world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jedediah Berry is the author of a novel, The Manual of Detection, and a story in cards, The Family Arcana. He lives in Western Massachusetts. Together with his partner, writer Emily Houk, he runs Ninepin Press, an independent publisher of fiction, poetry, and games in unusual shapes.