The Orchard at the Edge of the Map
Orla Fenwick
Literary & Speculative Fiction
The Cartographers of Ash
A map can be wrong without being false.
The Cartographers of Ash by Avery Rowan is a literary speculative mystery title published by Alderwake Press in the Literary & Speculative Fiction line.
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About this novel
When a route changes on paper, people still have to cross the ground it claims to describe. Surveyor Nera Serr is sent to verify a southern passage that should not exist. What she finds is not a single forgery, but a chain of corrections: altered borders, missing witnesses, and records that have learned to agree with one another.
In a landscape remade by ash and water, Nera must decide what can be proved, who gets to speak for the absent, and whether a city can survive the truth of its own measurements.
A way into the story
Readers drawn to maps, memory, atmospheric mystery, and questions of accountability.
