**" Move over, Louisa May Alcott! Samantha Mabry has written her very own magical _Little Women_ for our times." --Julia Alvarez, author of _How the Garc ia Girls Lost Their Accents_ In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Award-longlisted novel All the Wind in the World, Samantha Mabry wea
Tigers, Not Daughters
β Scribed by Mabry, Samantha
- Publisher
- Algonquin Young Readers; Algonquin Books
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 160 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- S.I.
- ISBN
- 1643750542
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β¦ Synopsis
"Move over, Louisa May Alcott! Samantha Mabry has written her very own magical? Little Women ?for our times."??Julia Alvarez, author of? How the Garc?a Girls Lost Their Accents In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Award-longlisted novel?All the Wind in the World, Samantha Mabry weaves an aching, magical novel that is one part family drama, one part ghost story, and one part love story.? The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later, her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still consumed by grief and haunted by their sister?s memory. Their dream of leaving Southtown now seems out of reach. But then strange things start happening around the house: mysterious laughter, mysterious shadows, mysterious writing on the walls. The sisters begin to wonder if Ana really is haunting them, trying to send them a message?and what exactly she?s trying to say. ? In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Award?longlisted novel All the Wind in the World , Samantha Mabry weaves an aching, magical novel that is one part family drama, one part ghost story, and one part love story.
β¦ Subjects
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