Imaginary Girls
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Publisher Description
This atmospheric young adult novel will leave you breathless with palpable drama and a haunting mystery.
“[A] poetic young-adult debut.”—The Los Angeles Times
“Eerie and gripping and told with lush and inviting scenes, Imaginary Girls will haunt its readers.”—Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Chloe’s older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for. After a night with Ruby’s friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers a dead body floating in the reservoir, Chloe is sent away—away from home, away from Ruby. But Ruby will do anything to get her sister back, and when Chloe returns home at last, she finds a shocking surprise. As Chloe flirts with the truth that Ruby has hidden deeply away, she finds herself walking a precarious and deadly tightrope between what’s real and what lurks beneath the surface.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her first YA novel, Suma creates a surreal and dreamy world where magical thinking is carried to a chilling extreme. Fourteen-year-old Chloe idolizes her older sister, Ruby, a boy magnet who runs wild in their New York upstate town and is denied nothing. At a drunken party, Chloe accepts Ruby's challenge to swim across the local reservoir and finds a drifting rowboat holding the body of London, a girl from school. Afterward, Chloe is forced to move in with her father in another state; two years later, Ruby fetches Chloe back, and everything's different. Or nothing is. Chloe can't tell for sure. Ruby still has the run of the town, but there's London, alive and well. Chloe begins to recognize that things work differently in her sister's world; events bend to accommodate Ruby, and reality itself seems to take its shape from her desires. Suma (Dani Noir) uses the story's supernatural, horror movie ready elements in the best of ways; beneath all the strangeness lies beauty, along with a powerful statement about the devotion between sisters. Not your average paranormal novel. Ages 14 up.
