Gods of Jade and Shadow

Casiopea Tun lives as a poor relation in her wealthy grandfather's house in a small Yucatán town, scrubbing floors while her cousin Martín enjoys the family's favor. One day she opens a locked chest in her grandfather's room and, pricked by a bone splinter, brings back Hun-Kamé, the Maya lord of death. His twin brother Vucub-Kamé has taken his throne in Xibalba and scattered pieces of his body, and the two are now bound together: if Hun-Kamé fails to reclaim what was taken, Casiopea will die with him.

Their journey carries them from the Yucatán to Mexico City and across the country in the Jazz Age, through the company of sorcerers, demons and the people of a changing nation, and finally into the Maya underworld. Silvia Moreno-Garcia's 2019 historical fantasy draws on the Popol Vuh and Maya myth, and follows a young woman who has been told her whole life to stay small as she bargains with gods for a life of her own.