Piketown Press
Mara and the Stones of Stonewater
A Story of Memory, Money, and the Truth That Cannot Be Taken
A story for young readers about memory, money, and the truth that cannot be taken.
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About the book
Every civilization discovers, sooner or later, what money is actually for. On the island of Stonewater, the lesson is carved in limestone.
The great discs that serve as money are quarried at terrible cost from across a dangerous sea. Each one is witnessed by every person on the island. Each one is held in shared memory: a ledger no single person can falsify, because too many people hold it at once.
When the trader Castor arrives offering something new, Stonewater has to decide what it believes money is. Ten-year-old Mara, apprentice to the keeper of the memory, watches it happen. And when the trader tries to rewrite what is remembered, she is the one who must stand up and tell the truth.