Anne Ursu, the author of “Breadcrumbs,” has written a lovely and sophisticated new middle-grade fantasy.
People are divided into so many different selves with so many different secrets, that it’s all but impossible to answer “Why?”
Suma shows how sweat, blood, and decay mean greater things than exertion and destruction.
In order to fully fall into the novel, you have to turn off that part of the brain that questions.