**[i]"Profound and enthralling. This book is a delicate dream, mixing its own internal mythology with a brutal tale of prejudice and human frailty. I can't recommend it enough. Tanzer is absolutely one to watch."** **Seanan McGuire, bestselling, award-winning author of *In an Absent Dream.[/i]***
Creatures of Want and Ruin
β Scribed by Molly Tanzer
- Book ID
- 100633225
- Publisher
- HMH Books; John Joseph Adams
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1006 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Boston
- ISBN
- 1328710254
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Profound and enthralling. This book is a delicate dream, mixing its own internal mythology with a brutal tale of prejudice and human frailty. I can't recommend it enough. Tanzer is absolutely one to watch."
-- Seanan McGuire, bestselling, award-winning author of In an Absent Dream
Amityville baywoman Ellie West fishes by day and bootlegs moonshine by night. It's dangerous work under Prohibition--independent operators like her are despised by federal agents and mobsters alike--but Ellie's brother was accepted to college and Ellie's desperate to see him go. So desperate that when wealthy strangers ask her to procure libations for an extravagant party Ellie sells them everything she has, including some booze she acquired under unusual circumstances.
What Ellie doesn't know is that this booze is special. Distilled from foul mushrooms by a cult of diabolists, those who drink it see terrible things--like the...
β¦ Subjects
Fiction
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