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CHERISH FARRAH
Get Out meets My Sister the Serial Killer in this novel in which a calculating young Black girl manipulates her way into the lives of her Black best friend's white adopted family and begins to suspect that she may not be the only one invested in engineering a place in the affluent household and someone else's motives may be more disturbing than her own.
Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a wealthy white family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS - White Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black parents can't seem to afford - and it creates a dissonance in her best friend that Farrah can exploit. When her own family is unexpectedly confronted with foreclosure, the calculating Farrah is determined to reassert the control she's convinced she's always had over her life by staying with Cherish, the only person she loves - even when she hates her.
A troubled Farrah manipulates her way further into the Whitman family but the longer she stays, the more her own parents suggest that something is wrong in the Whitman house. She might trust them - if they didn't think something was wrong with Farrah, too. As strange things start happening at the Whitman household - debilitating illnesses, upsetting fever dreams, an inexplicable tension with Cherish's hothead boyfriend, and a strange journal that seems to keep track of what is happening to Farrah - it's nothing she can't handle. But soon everything begins to unravel when the Whitmans invite Farrah closer, and it's anyone's guess who is really in control.
Told in Farrah's unforgettable voice and weaving in searing commentary on race and class, this slow-burn social horror will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page.
Bethany C. Morrow is a recovering expat recently returning from six years in Montreal, Quebec, to live and write in North Country, New York. A California native, she graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz and then studied Clinical Psychological Research at the University of Wales, Bangor before returning to North America to focus on her literary work. She is the author of the adult novel Mem (The Unnamed Press, 2018), the editor of the young adult anthology Take the Mic (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2019), and the author of the bestselling young adult novel, A Song Below Water (Tor Teen, 2020).
A troubled Farrah manipulates her way further into the Whitman family but the longer she stays, the more her own parents suggest that something is wrong in the Whitman house. She might trust them - if they didn't think something was wrong with Farrah, too. As strange things start happening at the Whitman household - debilitating illnesses, upsetting fever dreams, an inexplicable tension with Cherish's hothead boyfriend, and a strange journal that seems to keep track of what is happening to Farrah - it's nothing she can't handle. But soon everything begins to unravel when the Whitmans invite Farrah closer, and it's anyone's guess who is really in control.
Told in Farrah's unforgettable voice and weaving in searing commentary on race and class, this slow-burn social horror will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page.
Bethany C. Morrow is a recovering expat recently returning from six years in Montreal, Quebec, to live and write in North Country, New York. A California native, she graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz and then studied Clinical Psychological Research at the University of Wales, Bangor before returning to North America to focus on her literary work. She is the author of the adult novel Mem (The Unnamed Press, 2018), the editor of the young adult anthology Take the Mic (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2019), and the author of the bestselling young adult novel, A Song Below Water (Tor Teen, 2020).
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Published 2022-02-08 by Dutton Books |