Burn Our Bodies Down

✍ Scribed by Rory Power

• Book ID: 100652629
• Publisher: Random House Children's Books; Delacorte Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 163 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0593181557

✦ Synopsis

From the author of the New York Timesbestseller Wilder Girlscomes a new twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mystery --until she decides to return to her mother's hometown . . . where history has a tendency to repeat itself.
Ever since Margot was born, it's been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot's questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along.
But that's not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And she just found the key she needs to get it: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Pointing her home. Only, when Margot gets there, it's not what she bargained for.
Margot's mother left for a reason. But was it to hide her past? Or was it to protect Margot from what's still there?
The only thing Margot knows for sure is there's...

✦ Subjects

Mother-daughter relationship -- Fiction