![]() ![]() ![]() The duke buys the fay works for his daughter Irina and then presents her to the young Tsar Mirnatius as a bride. She asks her cousin’s fiancé Isaac to help, and he fashions the silver into a ring, a necklace and a tiara that he offers to the duke. He sets her three tasks as a test, and in a panic Miryam carries the Staryk’s silver to the city of Vysnia where her grandparents live. After her success, Miryem makes an unfortunate boast about being able to turn silver into gold, which attracts the fay Staryk king. When one angry, alcoholic debtor says he can’t pay, she contracts for his daughter Wanda and later his son Sergey to work off the debt as servants in her family’s house. This angers the people in the village, but Miryem continues to work at it until her family is back on the road to prosperity. She goes through her father’s books and begins to make collections for him. ![]() When her mother Panova Mandelstam gets sick, Miryem takes things into her own hands. ![]() Winter seems to extend longer and longer. He’s lent out his wife’s dowery and can’t collect payment, so the family falls into poverty. Miryem comes from a family of moneylenders, but her father is really poor at it. It runs 466 pages and was published by Del Rey/Macmillan. This novel is a finalist for the 2018 Nebula Awards. ![]()
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