Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear

This 10th book in the “Wayward Children” series doesn’t so much follow Mislaid in Parts Half-Known as it provides an origin story for Nadya, one of the protagonists of Beneath the Sugar Sky. In that earlier story, Nadya found her door and was able to return to the place her heart called home. This is the story of what made the child Nadya certain that she wanted to go to Belyyreka in the first place, and the life that she lived there. Nadya’s story is about finding acceptance for the person she is instead of being shoehorned into who her adopted mother believes she should be. In the underwater world of Belyrreka, the arm she was born without is just part of who she is—not something that makes her less than. She grows up with confidence in a world where she contributes and most importantly, belongs, but she loses it all by being saved from drowning and damned to return to the world of her birth—until she can find her door again.