‘Where itaranta shines is within her understated but convincing characters’ Red superstar review (for Storage OF Drinking water), Publishers Regular.

The tapestry of lifestyle could be more fragile than it appears: pull one thread, and all will unravel.

In the City of Woven Streets, human life has little value. You practice a craft to maintain you alive, or you are an outcast, unwanted and tainted. Eliana can be a young weaver in the House of Webs, but secretly understands she doesn’t really belong there. She actually is hiding a shameful delivery defect that would, if anyone knew about it, land her in the House of the Tainted, a prison for those whose extremely existence is known as a curse.

When an unknown woman with her tongue take off and Eliana’s name tattooed on her behalf skin arrives at the House of Webs, Eliana discovers an invisible network of power behind the city’s facade. All the while, the sea is clawing the shores as well as the streets are gradually drowning.