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OUR CROOKED HEARTS
A new a standalone urban/suburban contemporary fantasy about secrets, lies, super-bad choices, and, yes, witchcraft, bestselling author Melissa Albert delivers: OUR CROOKED HEARTS is a little bit dark, a little bit creepy, a little bit witchy and all spectacular.
The suburbs, right now:
Seventeen-year-old Ivy's summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a feral stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, she grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she's always known: there's more to her prickly, distant mother than meets the eye.
The city, back then:
Dana Nowak has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best friend and a lonely, ambitious older girl, her gifts bloom into a heady fling with witchcraft, set against the backdrop of a city of diverse magical possibilities and secret mystics. As the trio's ambitions darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point.
Though Dana moves on to marriage and early motherhood, she soon discovers the darkness she thought she'd put behind her never truly went away. Twenty-five years after it began, the story she began writing at sixteen will come down to a reckoning among a mother, a daughter, and the forces they never should've messed with.
Melissa Albert is the New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood and The Night Country. She was the founding editor of the Barnes & Noble Teen Blog and has written for McSweeney's, Time Out Chicago, and MTV. Melissa is from Illinois and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Seventeen-year-old Ivy's summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a feral stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, she grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she's always known: there's more to her prickly, distant mother than meets the eye.
The city, back then:
Dana Nowak has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best friend and a lonely, ambitious older girl, her gifts bloom into a heady fling with witchcraft, set against the backdrop of a city of diverse magical possibilities and secret mystics. As the trio's ambitions darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point.
Though Dana moves on to marriage and early motherhood, she soon discovers the darkness she thought she'd put behind her never truly went away. Twenty-five years after it began, the story she began writing at sixteen will come down to a reckoning among a mother, a daughter, and the forces they never should've messed with.
Melissa Albert is the New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood and The Night Country. She was the founding editor of the Barnes & Noble Teen Blog and has written for McSweeney's, Time Out Chicago, and MTV. Melissa is from Illinois and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Published 2022-06-28 by Flatiron Books |