Bones & All: A Novel (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. She wants to be loved. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's done to her family and her sense of identity; for how it dictates her place in the world and how people see her - how they judge her. She didn't choose to be this way.
Because Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. Ever since her mother found Penny Wilson's eardrum in her mouth when Maren was just two years old, she knew life would never be normal for either of them. Love may come in many shapes and sizes, but for Maren, it always ends the same-with her hiding the evidence and her mother packing up the car.
But when her mother abandons her the day after her 16th birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, and finds much more than she bargained for along the way.
Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she's looking for herself.
Camille DeAngelis' Bones & All is an astonishingly original coming-of-age tale that is at once a gorgeously written horror story as well as a mesmerizing meditation on female power and sexuality.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A young woman must come of age and come to terms with an unusual problem in Camille DeAngelis’ imaginative fantasy. When Maren Yearly really likes someone, she wants to gobble them up—and that’s not a cutesy metaphor. Maren is an “eater,” and when her despairing mother abandons her the day after her 16th birthday, she goes in search of the father she’s never met, hoping to learn more about who or what she is. DeAngelis fills her oddball tale with touches of offbeat humor, but we never stopped feeling compassion for Maren and her predicament of longing for companionship but not being able to trust herself to become emotionally involved. Julia Knippen’s delicate, crisp narration provides a perfect contrast to the story’s darker moments. Bones & All is a touching, quirky story about an outsider looking for a way to fit in.