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Her parents, and frequently the narrative voice, worry that the job has made her “cold,” but she knows she is only taking what is hers, which most of the borrowers can actually afford to pay, and readers will likely cheer for her as she navigates judgement, attempted violence, and other dangers to make herself a home and an identity of which she can be proud. When protagonist Miryem becomes tired of her moneylender father never having the fortitude to collect what people have borrowed, she takes up the task herself-to mixed reaction. Spinning Silver is a beautiful story about identity, independence, and getting what you’re owed. When her grandfather loans her a pouch of silver pennies, she brings it back full of gold.īut having the reputation of being able to change silver to gold can be more trouble than it’s worth–especially when her fate becomes tangled with the cold creatures that haunt the wood, and whose king has learned of her reputation and wants to exploit it for reasons Miryem cannot understand. Hardening her heart against her fellow villagers’ pleas, she sets out to collect what is owed–and finds herself more than up to the task. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has loaned out most of his wife’s dowry and left the family on the edge of poverty–until Miryem steps in. How Miryem's faith plays a big role in who she is as a person and how she's treated, how she uses that to her advantage to become the reputable, though cold, businesswoman she needs to be to save her family.Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders… but her father isn’t a very good one. How Irina, a thorn in her duke fathers side due to her plainness and thus inability to marry off to someone rich and powerful, becomes all the more so in her own right, how she's linked to the other two girls when Miryem’s desperate attempt to fulfill impossible tasks set by the Staryk leads to ingenuity.

I can go on about how Wanda is drawn into Miryem’s life as a way to pay off the debt her father has drunk and gambled away.

I think you can (kind of) guess what happens.

Miryem has become so good, there are boasts she can spin silver into gold.

Miryam finds clever ways to get back what her father had loaned, through coin or food or medicine or wool, or, in Wanda’s family’s case, labour in return for unpaid debts.Īs her reputation grows, it reaches the ears of the Satryk, a race of humanoid creatures that live in a parallel land of snow and ice, only emerging in winter to seek out gold, which they covet above all else, wherever they can find it (usually leaving death and destruction in their wake) and bring it back to their kingdom.