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A Booklist Editors' Choice 2024: Books for Youth Selection ""A must-read for truth seekers and those hoping to glimpse a world built around kindness and acceptance."" --Booklist, starred review ""[A] sinisterly creepy YA folk horror novel with striking feminist undertones."" --Shelf Awareness, starred review ""Tightly written and clearly envisioned [...] a standout new release. The story is cloaked in fantasy-like horror but remains grounded in its themes of religious trauma and the pernicious evil of purity culture. [...] If you like books about women who misbehave and refuse to be punished for it, you'll want to pick this one up."" --NPR's Here & Now ""In this darkly atmospheric tale of folk horror, Bovalino [...] employs sophisticated prose to perceptively examine the town's unspecified oppressive religious institutions and how its tenets keep the young women of Winston from achieving their full potential or pursuing happiness."" --Publishers Weekly ""[A] welcome addition to the paranormal genre that concentrates on just what it means to be good. Readers of Ava Reid's works will devour this book."" --School Library Journal ""Bovalino [...] is proving to be a master of atmosphere, mining the insularity of a small town to maximize tension while still emphasizing the unnatural elements in the seemingly more welcoming but still unsettling village in the woods."" --BCCB ""Whimsical, dark, and acutely painful. This is a story that will reach into your soul, pull taut, and make itself at home there."" --M.K. Lobb, author of the Seven Faceless Saints duology ""Raw, brutal and heartbreaking in turn, Bovalino masterfully weaves deliciously sinister horror with unflinching, complex themes. I am in awe."" --Kat Dunn, author of Bitterthorn ""A deliciously creepy, haunting exploration of love, hate, and what it means to forgive yourself."" --Kate Dylan, author of Mindwalker ""Sweet as honey and brutal as a knife--Bovalino has crafted a parable of self-forgiveness and community power fearsome enough to drive men and gods, alike, to their knees. If only all vengeance could be so lush."" --GennaRose Nethercott, author of Thistlefoot

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Tori Bovalino is the editor of the bestselling horror anthology The Gathering Dark and the author of Not Good for Maidens. She lives in London.

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