In the ice east of the Black Rock there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. In the vastness of the ice of Abeta there is no place for loners. Even together it is barely possible to survive. No one survives alone. To withstand the cold, endure the night months when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires special qualities. Change is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is not like everyone else. Yaz is uprooted from her normal life, away from her family, away from the guy she thought she would spend her days with, and must find a new path for herself in a world she never knew existed. I suspected. In a world full of discord, mystery and danger, Yaz discovers that Abeth is older and stranger than she could have imagined. She learns that her weaknesses are another form of strength. And she learns to challenge the cruel arithmetic of survival that has always ruled her people. Only in the dark can you see the stars.