Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear, Seanan McGuire
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear, Seanan McGuire
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Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear

Author: Seanan McGuire

Narrator: Barrie Kreinik

Unabridged: 4 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2025


Synopsis

Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family in the latest in the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire.

“Nadya’s story reads like a fairy tale, thanks to narrator Barrie Kreinik, whose Russian accent immerses readers in the story and delivers lines with a smooth, gentle tone reminiscent of a mother reading a storybook to her children.”—Library Journal

Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her.

Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she'd been missing from birth.

It was cumbersome; it was uncomfortable; it was wrong.

It wasn't her.

Frustrated and unable to express why, Nadya began to wander, until the day she fell through a door into Belyrreka, the Land Beneath the Lake—and found herself in a world of water, filled with child-eating amphibians, majestic giant turtles, and impossible ships that sailed as happily beneath the surface as on top. In Belyyreka, she found herself understood for who she was: a Drowned Girl, who had made her way to her real home, accepted by the river and its people.

But even in Belyyreka, there are dangers, and trials, and Nadya would soon find herself fighting to keep hold of everything she had come to treasure.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.

About Seanan McGuire

SEANAN McGUIRE is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award–winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. In 2022 she managed the same feat, again!


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on April 24, 2025

every series i like should just go on forever. it seems like this one might. don't get me wrong: i'm glad that books in this series keep on coming. but it seems like we might be running out of ideas. this installment follows nadya, a russian orphan who loves turtles and talking about figurative mother......more

Goodreads review by karen on January 08, 2025

my favorite january tradition......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on February 26, 2025

ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley i can’t believe we are ten books into the wayward children series! not to make this mini review about my own nostalgia, but down among the sticks and bones was actually the first physical arc i ever received. and throughout the years, i have also brought th......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on November 09, 2024

Yet another example of why Seanan McGuire is just so good at writing novellas like this! Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear is another installment in the beloved Wayward Children series involving portals to other worlds. This one the backstory of Nadya, and wow did it it for me. It deals with adopti......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on January 29, 2025

3.5 Stars The Wayward Children novella series has become a yearly comfort. Some of the entries have been stronger than others but I find myself just enjoying spending time with the characters. This entry was good in places but didn't quite hit me in the emotions. I suspect this one will hit harder fo......more


Quotes

This is another gem from McGuire.” —Publishers Weekly

Praise for the Wayward Children Series

Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best Series
Winner: 2017 Hugo Award
Winner: 2017 Alex Award
Winner: 2017 Locus Award
Winner: 2016 Nebula Award
Nominated: 2017 World Fantasy Award
Nominated: 2017 British Fantasy Award
2016 Tiptree Honor List

"A mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy — a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics" —NPR


“The series as a whole has wonderfully internally consistent world building and characters, no matter how far in the background, with complexity and depth.” —Booklist

“A great read for middle and high schoolers who enjoy themes of friendship and family, and a magical world of unicorns and centaurs.” —School Library Journal on Across the Green Grass Fields

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire is one of the most extraordinary stories I've ever read..” —V. E. Schwab