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Our crooked hearts : a novel / Melissa Albert.
Record details
- ISBN: 1250826365
- ISBN: 9781250826367
- Physical Description: 340 pages
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Flatiron Books, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 14-18. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 24.99 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Magic > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Witches > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Suburbs > Fiction. Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Fantasy fiction. |
- Baker & Taylor
When the appearance of a stranger sets off a disturbing chain of events, 17-year-old Ivy grapples with unnerving offerings, tarnished memories and the knowledge that thereâs more to her mother than meets the eye. 200,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. - Baker & Taylor
Told in alternating voices, years after it began, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her mom Dana's shared story comes down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should have messed with. - McMillan Palgrave
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE NEXT PICK * 6 STARRED REVIEWS
Secrets. Lies. Bad choices. Dangerous magic. . . . From NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Melissa Albert comes OUR CROOKED HEARTS, a contemporary fantasy "so precise and enthralling that the only explanation is that Albert herself is a witch" (Booklist, starred review)
On the way home from a party, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her soon-to-be ex nearly run over a nude young woman standing in the middle of a tree-lined road. Itâs only the first in a string of increasingly eerie events and offerings: a dead rabbit in the driveway, a bizarre concoction buried by her mother in the backyard, a box of childhood keepsakes hidden in her parentsâ closet safe. Most unsettling of all, corroded recollections of Ivy and her enigmatic motherâs past resurface, with the help of the boy next door.
What if thereâs more to Ivyâs mother than meets the eye? And what if the supernatural forces she messed with during her own teen years have come back to haunt them both? Ivy must grapple with these questions and more if sheâs going to escape the darkness closing in.
Straddling Ivyâs contemporary suburban town and her motherâs magic-drenched 1990s Chicago, this bewitching and propulsive story rockets towards a conclusion guaranteed to keep readers up all night.
