Wild Beauty

✍ Scribed by Anna-Marie McLemore

• Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 416 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1250180732

✦ Synopsis

"McLemore's second novel is such a lush surprising fable, you half expect birds to fly out of the pages... McLemore uses the supernatural to remind us that the body's need to speak its truth is primal and profound, and that the connection between two people is no more anyone's business than why the dish ran away with the spoon."
-Jeff Giles, New York Times Book Review, on When the Moon was Ours

Love grows such strange things.

Anna-Marie McLemore's debut novel The Weight of Feathers garnered fabulous reviews and was a finalist for the prestigious YALSA Morris Award, and her second novel, When the Moon was Ours , was longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Now, in Wild Beauty, McLemore introduces a spellbinding setting and two characters who are drawn together by fate--and pulled apart by reality.

For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera,...

✦ Subjects

Families -- Fiction