Once he is whole, he hopes to retake rulership of Xibalba, the Mayan underworld, from which he has been deposed by his brother. Bound to Casiopea, the god enlists her in his quest to regain his missing body parts, which his twin brother and rival Vucub-Kamé has scattered throughout Mexico and left in the keeping of sorcerers, demons, and other supernatural entities. A shard of bone pierces her thumb, restoring Hun-Kamé to a semblance of life. In a forbidden chest in her grandfather's bedroom, she discovers the bones of the Mayan death god Hun-Kamé. At eighteen, Casiopea works as a servant for her grandfather, dreaming of escape. She is especially tormented by her spoiled, bitter cousin Martín Leyva. After her father dies, Casiopea Tun and her mother move back to their native Mayan town of Uukumil in the Yucatán, where she grows up as an unwanted poor relation in her wealthy grandfather's house. The story is set in the late 1920s as Mexico emerges from its revolutionary era into the Jazz Age. The first British edition was issued in trade paperback by Jo Fletcher Books in February 2020. It was first published in hardcover and ebook by Del Rey Books in July 2019, followed by a trade paperback edition from the same publisher in February 2020.
Gods of Jade and Shadow is a historical fantasy novel by Canadian-Mexican novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
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