Girls of Paper and Fire Mothers & Children Fiction she is biding her time

she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery

she'll need to break free of a lifetime of conditioning to embody her own self and forge her own path

Shantel must confront her deepest fears and make choices that will shape her destiny

Through personal essays

It starts as respect

Girls of Paper and Fire Mothers & Children Fiction she is biding her timeUncover a riveting story of palace intrigue set in a sumptuous Asian inspired fantasy world in the breakout YA novel that Publisher's Weekly calls "elegant and adrenaline soaked." In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate