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The Book of Nix
Paperback
Publisher: N. S. Streets
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
You are not special. Neither is Nix. That's the point.
Nix doesn't feel things. Not because she's brave - because the mechanism was broken a long time ago. Raised by a man she calls the Wolf, a pastor who drank and prayed and called her witch, she learned to survive by becoming small. By becoming furniture. By becoming a ghost that pays rent.
But ghosts don't have familiars.
King is a cat - impossibly black, six hundred years old, and haunted by the memory of the last woman he chose and couldn't save. Bones is a rat who speaks in feelings. Moth is a light in the dark. Saint is a crow with three hundred words and the timing of a prophet. They found her. They stayed.
Now something ancient is stirring beneath the city. Something that has been waiting for twelve thousand years. Something that knows the shape of the hollow inside her - and says she was never empty at all.
Told across three days - Tuesday through Thursday - through shifting voices that don't always agree, The Book of Nix is a raw, dark, literary fairy tale about abuse, survival, chosen family, and the terrifying act of learning to feel again.
This is not a fairy tale. This happened on a Tuesday.
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