In this beautiful and thoughtful novel that plays lovingly with words and geographies, Marie-Sabine Roger returns to the lost battle of childhood and reminds us that our inherent need for fiction can sometimes consume us to the point of madness.

A long time ago, long before she was the free woman she is now, Tanah remembers being the child of a king, the daughter of a fallen ruler, exiled from a gorgeous archipelago, Far-Reach, in the vast, blue Frenetic Ocean. And like all islanders, she knows the location of her homeland by heart, and when she turns nine-years-old, she manages to retrace her steps right back to the island she came from to find her father. He passed down to her the seeds of a dream, but he also taught her the brutal power of illusion.