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*** Selected as a 2026 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Finalist ***
***Finalist — 2026 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award***

“Magical realism greets generational trauma in a mind-bending journey of grief and choice.” — IndieReader

“A moving debut. Bowers’s writing is lovely, immersing readers with precise, evocative prose.”
— Publishers Weekly/BookLife

“The forest itself receives a starring role… seeping into each element with deliberate, inexplicable beauty.”
— Foreword/Clarion



A family curse says every man in Micah Thorne’s bloodline dies before forty.
His father just became the latest proof.

Left with nothing but unanswered questions, Micah follows the only lead he has into a forest that shouldn’t exist on any map.

He doesn’t find answers.
He finds a place that doesn’t behave like the real world.
Paths shift when he isn’t looking. Time bends. And the forest begins to pull him in.

Deep inside, he discovers an ancient game that has waited centuries to be played, bound to rules older than language and tied to his family’s curse.

To escape, he must play.

But every move changes something outside the game.
And the forest is learning him faster than he can survive it.


Mancala Moon is a literary fantasy with magical realism, weaving grief, legacy, and transformation into a haunting, mythic journey full of symbolism and emotional depth.

Some places don’t just hide secrets.
They change those who enter them.

• Asa Bowers
• Published 1970 January 1st by (first published 1970 January 1st)
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• 4.56 39 ratings
• 22 reviews