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Queen of Faces by Petra Lord (Henry Holt)
"In
a multi-house auction, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, an imprint
of Macmillan Children’s Books, has acquired Queen of Faces,
the first book in a fantasy trilogy by debut author Petra Lord. Peter
Knapp and Stuti Telidevara at Park & Fine Literary and Media sold
North American rights for seven figures to Brian Geffen, with Claire
Wilson at RCW Literary Agency representing Lord in the U.K. and Debbie
Deuble Hill at IAG handling film and television rights.The
story is set in a world where the rich buy and swap designer bodies
like clothes, while the poor, like teenage Ana, are stuck with whatever
they can find and afford, such as the broken male body she has inhabited
from a young age. With nothing but her illusion magic and quick
thinking at her disposal, she must learn to navigate a cutthroat magical
academy in order to earn a new body before the one she’s in breathes
its last breath. Her counterpoint is Nell, an elite from a wealthy
family, soon to be forced into a body swap by her disapproving mother.
The two characters are “diametrically opposed dark mirrors of each
other,” said Lord, who is trans and biracial, and structured the story
to explore the trans experience from multiple perspectives."
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