The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. Two children are in a desert, one in a wheelchair, wearing blue and red robes with bandages on their face and hands, one standing next to the wheelchair, with long red robes and braided brown hair blowing in the wind. Below them, the large shadow of bird wings. A flock of birds appears to be flying above them, around the title. The title “Black Bird, Blue Road” is above the children, in large, dark blue capitals. Below the children, the authors name “Sofiya Pasternack” in small, white capitals. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Death (Of a Parent, Of a Child)
• Terminal Illness
• Medical Content
• Grief
• Injury
• Violence
• Slavery

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Summary:

In this historical fantasy novel from Sydney Taylor Honor winner and National Jewish Book Award finalist Sofiya Pasternack, Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness–even facing the Angel of Death himself.

Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on a cure. Then Pesah has a vision: The Angel of Death will come for him on Rosh Hashanah, just one month away.

So Ziva takes her brother and runs away to find doctors who can cure him. But when they meet and accidentally free a half-demon boy, he suggests paying his debt by leading them to the fabled city of Luz, where no one ever dies–the one place Pesah will be safe.

They just need to run faster than The Angel of Death can fly…

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Notes:

The MCs of this book are Jewish.

There is an audiobook.

This book received a Kirkus star.

Follow this link to find out more on the author’s website.

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Archivist Comments:

This book was recommended to me when I asked a book blog for some more global recommendatons.

If anyone has any more information about the clothes the twins are wearing in the cover then please let me know, and I’ll update the image description.

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