Because It Is My Blood
“Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in.” - Michael Corleone, The Godfather
Freed from jail, Anya hopes that things will get back to normal. But life on
the outside is even more dangerous than life behind bars. Some of her
gangland family want revenge for the crime for which she has done time:
the shooting of her uncle. Forced to flee the country, Anya hides out in a cacao plantation in Mexico. There she learns the secrets of the
chocolate trade, a trade that is illegal and deadly in her native New
York. There too she discovers that seemingly random acts of violence
carried out across the world have a single target: her family. As
innocent bystanders get caught in the crossfire Anya must act fast and
decisively to stop it, no matter what the danger to herself.
Gabrielle Zevin
GABRIELLE ZEVIN is the New York Times and internationally best-selling author of several critically acclaimed novels, including The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and Young Jane Young. Her most recent novel is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a selection of the Tonight Show’s Fallon Book Club, the winner of the Goodreads Choice Award, a finalist for the Wingate Prize, and one of the best books of the year, according to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Entertainment Weekly, the Atlantic, Amazon.com, Oprah Daily, Slate, NPR, and many others. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry is now a feature film with a screenplay by Zevin. Her novels have been translated into forty languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
Birthright
In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. Anya Balanchine is the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, and when her ex is accidently poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures, the police think she's to blame. In this thrilling young adult series, Anya will have to decide between accepting her birthright and following her heart.
Birthright consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
