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Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys

A Review by Elleanore Vance  This past January (2021) when the skies were grey and the temps were low, I wanted a book to match. Winter Tide was very much that.  A sequel to an online fan fiction called The Litany of Earth ,  this novel fleshed out what Litany left bone. To know what's what,  i highly suggest reading Lovecraft's Shadow over Innsmouth first.  I suppose you might be able to follow what's going on without it,  but having the background makes it so much easier.  Ruthanna Emrys chose a pair of siblings from Innsmouth as her protagonists: the only known survivors of the Marsh family. Aphra, the elder,  and Caleb her younger brother,  who was so young when their family was incarcerated that all his childhood memories are from the camps.  They survived the internment camps that killed their natal family, and manage to build a new one when they are joined by Japanese Americans,  held against their will,  during WWII. The Marsh siblings are released with the Japa