They Bloom at Night
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Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth
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New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
The author of the New York Times bestselling horror phenomenon She Is a Haunting is back with a novel about the monsters that swim beneath us . . . and live within us.
Since the hurricane, the town of Mercy, Louisiana has been overtaken by a strange red algae bloom. Noon and her mother have carved out a life in the wreckage, trawling for the mutated wildlife that lurks in the water and trading it to the corrupt harbormaster. When she's focused on survival, Noon doesn't have to cope with what happened to her at the Cove or the monster itching at her skin.
Mercy has never been a safe place, but it's getting worse. People are disappearing, and the only clues as to why are whispers of underwater shadows and warnings to never answer the knocks at night. When the harbormaster demands she capture the creature that's been drowning residents, Noon finds a reluctant ally in his daughter Covey. And as the next storm approaches, the two set off to find what's haunting Mercy. After all, Noon is no stranger to monsters . . .
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Seventeen-year-old Vietnamese American Nhung—or Noon—and Noon's mother live on their boat Wild Things in Mercy, La., where a sinister red algae bloom has mutated the wildlife in the aftermath of a deadly hurricane. Though Noon is desperate to leave Mercy, Mom refuses, certain that Noon's father and brother—whose bodies were never recovered following the storm—are "out there somewhere, reincarnated and waiting for us to rescue them." They make their living catching and selling mutated sea creatures to Jimmy, Mercy's de facto ruler. When people start disappearing, including a scientist studying the bloom, Jimmy threatens to repossess Wild Things unless they find the monster he believes is responsible. Along for the hunt is his daughter, white-cued lesbian 17-year-old Covey, who is also searching for her missing mother. As the trio scour the contaminated waters, Noon contemplates issues of gender identity, struggles to process a previous sexual assault, and contends with inexplicable body changes. While fluid prose occasionally makes for murky, complex plotting, it simultaneously conjures surreal and harrowing atmosphere through which Tran (She Is a Haunting) weaves a pulsing-pounding climate disaster thriller. Ages 14–up.
