Wings of ebony book5/24/2023 ![]() She says she especially wanted to reach her two teenage sisters, who struggle to see themselves in books - something to which Elle can relate. In Wings of Ebony, Elle pays homage to the community that raised her and to the tenacious, indomitable spirit of Black girls everywhere. With the Ghizonis at her heels, Tasha’s life in danger, and external magic not being what she thought it would be, Rue must depend on the power within her and her community to survive. Determined to get back to Tasha, Rue and her new friend Bri figure out a way to bring magic to the human realm, but not without consequences. ![]() In Ghizon, she discovers she’s part human, part magical being, but she was forced to leave her younger sister, Tasha, behind in her old neighborhood. ![]() She’d never even heard of this magical, imaginary place hundreds of miles off the coast of Madagascar until her mother was killed and the father she’d never met took her there to live with him. ![]() For protagonist Rue, there might be a bullet waiting for her, since she’s upset the Chancellor of Ghizon. Elle heard her grandmother say these words so often when she was growing up in Houston that they became the beginning of her debut novel, Wings of Ebony. ![]()
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