Silver Nitrate Botany and unexpected stories hail from

and unexpected stories hail from extraordinary voices rooted in Afghanistan's two main linguistic groups (Pashto and Dari)

Written in her signature

A mother of five

"A must-have"—Booklist (starred review)

she knows she’s going to rock kindergarten

Silver Nitrate Botany and unexpected stories hail fromFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about a curse that haunts a legendary lost film and awakens one woman's hidden powers. Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her