A National Book Award nominee!

The magic of Savvy meets the complexity of When You Reach Me in this "blithe magical puzzle," --The Wall Street Journal

Told in multiple viewpoints, A Tangle of Knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone has a Talent, eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal Talent for cake baking.But little does she know that fate has set her on ajourney from the moment she was born. Andher destiny leads her toa mysterious address that houses a lost luggage emporium, anold recipe, a family of children searching for their own Talents,and a Talent Thief who willalter her lifeforever. However, these encounters hold the key to Cady's past and how she became an orphan. If she's lucky, fate may reunite her with her long-lostparent.

Lisa Graff adds apinch of magic to asharply craftedplot to create a novel that will have readers wondering about fate and the way we're all connected.