title: The Glass Sentence (The Mapmakers Trilogy)
author:  S. E. Grove 
description: A&#160;<i>New York Times</i>&#160;Bestseller<br>An IndieBound National Bestseller<br>A Summer/Fall 2014 Indies Introduce New Voices Selection<br>A Top Ten Kid&rsquo;s Next Selection<br>A&#160;<i>Publishers Weekly</i>&#160;Flying Start<br>A&#160;<i>Washington Post</i>&#160;Summer Book Club Selection<br>A Junior Library Guild Selection<br>One of&#160;<i>Publishers Weekly</i>&rsquo;s Best Summer Reads<br>An Amazon Summer 2014 Reading Selection<br>An Amazon Top 20 Children&rsquo;s/YA Book of 2014<br>An ABC Best Book of 2014<br><br>* &ldquo;Brilliant in concept, breathtaking in scale and stellar in its worldbuilding; this is a world never before seen in fiction . . . Wholly original and marvelous beyond compare.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>, starred review<br><br>* &ldquo;A thrilling, time-bending debut . . . It&rsquo;s a cracking adventure, and Grove bolsters the action with commentary on xenophobia and government for hire, as well as a fascinating system of map magic.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Publishers Weekly,&#160;</i>starred review<br><br>* &ldquo;Stellar . . richly layered and emotionally engaging from the first page through to the intriguing cliffhanger end.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>BCCB</i>, starred review<br><br>* "A mind-blowing debut . . . The bookmaking behind this first novel is as elegant as the maps within it."&mdash;<i>Shelf Awareness</i>, starred review<br><br>&ldquo;Wonderful. This author's imagination is just amazing.&rdquo;&mdash;Nancy Pearl on NPR.org<br>&#160;<br>&ldquo;I am in no doubt about the energy of S.E. Grove as a full-fledged, pathfinding fantasist. I look forward to the next installment to place upon the pile. Intensely.&rdquo;&mdash;Gregory Maguire,&#160;<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br>&#160;<br>&ldquo;Not since Philip Pullman's&#160;<i>The Golden Compass</i>&#160;have I seen such an original and compelling world built inside a book.&rdquo;&mdash;Megan Whalen Turner,&#160;<i>New York Times&#160;</i>bestselling author of&#160;<i>A Conspiracy of Kings</i><br>&#160;<br><i>&ldquo;</i>Absolutely marvelous.&#160; It&rsquo;s the best book I&rsquo;ve read in a long time.&rdquo;&mdash;Nancy Farmer, National Book Award-winning author of&#160;<i>The House of the Scorpion<br></i><br>"A page-turner . . . So imaginative."&mdash;Meghan Cox Gurdon,&#160;<i>The Wall Street Journal<br></i><br>&ldquo;Exuberantly imagined [and] exquisite."&mdash;Elizabeth Wein, New York Times best-selling author of&#160;<i>Code Name Verity</i>
zlib_text: Contents
  TITLE	PAGE
  DEDICATION
  EPIGRAPH
  MAP
  AUTHOR’S	NOTE
  CHAPTER	1
  CHAPTER	2
  CHAPTER	3
  CHAPTER	4
  CHAPTER	5
  CHAPTER	6
  CHAPTER	7
  CHAPTER	8
  CHAPTER	9
  CHAPTER	10
  CHAPTER	11
  CHAPTER	12
  
  CHAPTER	13
  CHAPTER	14
  CHAPTER	15
  CHAPTER	16
  CHAPTER	17
  CHAPTER	18
  CHAPTER	19
  CHAPTER	20
  CHAPTER	21
  CHAPTER	22
  CHAPTER	23
  CHAPTER	24
  ABOUT	THE	AUTHOR
  ALSO	BY	ELIZABETH	GEORGE
  COPYRIGHT
  
  For	Mom	and	Dad,
  who	encouraged	the	passion
  and	tried	to	understand	everything	else
  
  Dawn	snuffs	out	star’s	spent	wick,
  Even	as	love’s	dear	fools	cry	evergreen,
  And	a	languor	of	wax	congeals	the	vein
  No	matter	how	fiercely	lit.
  SYLVIA	PLATH
  
  Author’s	Note
  Those	 familiar	 with	 the	 city	 of	 Cambridge	 and	 with	 Cambridge	 University
  will	recognize	that	there	is	little	enough	space	between	Trinity	College	and
  Trinity	Hall	in	the	first	place,	let	alone	enough	space	to	hold	the	seven	courts
  and	 four	 hundred	 years	 of	 architecture	 which	 comprise	 my	 fictional	 St.
  Stephen’s	College.
  I	am	indebted	in	any	number	of	ways	t