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Before the Devil Knows You're Here

✍ Scribed by Autumn Krause


Book ID
111908632
Publisher
Holiday House
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Weight
958 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781682636480

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Part dark gothic fantasy, part journey into the bizarre, this delicious blending of tall tales and Latin American surrealism will haunt you as you devour it!
"Highly imaginative and powerfully affecting." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
1836, Wisconsin. Catalina lives with her pa and brother in a ramshackle cabin on the edge of the wilderness. Harsh winters have brought the family to the brink of starvation, and Catalina has replaced her poet's soul with an unyielding determination to keep Pa and her brother alive.
When a sudden illness claims Pa, a strange man appears--a man covered in bark, leaves growing from his head, and sap dripping from his eyes. He scoops up her brother and disappears, leaving behind a bird with crimson wings. Catalina can't let this man--if that's what he is--have her brother. So, she grabs Pa's knife and follows the bird.
Along the way, she finds help from a young lumberjack,...


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