Name: The Grief of Stones
Rating: 4.26530612244898 (98 reviews)
ISBN: 9781250813909

In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel to The Witness For The Dead... Celehar's life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger. He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the city--the foundling girls. Orphans with no family to claim them and no funds to buy an apprenticeship. Foundling boys go to the Prelacies; foundling girls are sold into service, or worse. At once touching and shattering, Celehar's witnessing for one of these girls will lead him into the depths of his own losses. The love of his friends will lead him out again.

Katherine Addison is the fantasy pen name of American writer Sarah Monette. Her fiction explores conscience, duty, grief, and the practical work of kindness within intricate social and political systems.

The Goblin Emperor won the 2015 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Addison returned to its world in the Cemeteries of Amalo sequence: The Witness for the Dead, The Grief of Stones, and The Tomb of Dragons. She also wrote the alternate-Victorian fantasy The Angel of the Crows and the novella The Orb of Cairado.

Writing as Sarah Monette, she is also the author of the Doctrine of Labyrinths novels, short-fiction collections, and the Iskryne trilogy with Elizabeth Bear. She lives near Madison, Wisconsin.