**An unforgettable story of trauma and healing, told in achingly
beautiful prose with great tenderness and care. --#1 New York
Times-bestselling author Karen M. McManus
When two teens discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the
same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family's
possibly-magical pastelería, his secret forest of otherworldly trees,
and the swallows returning to their hometown, in Anna-Marie McLemore's
The Mirror Season.
Graciela Cristales' whole world changes after she and a boy she barely
knows are assaulted at the same party. She loses her gift for making
enchanted pan dulce. Neighborhood trees vanish overnight, while mirrored
glass appears, bringing reckless magic with it. And Ciela is haunted by
what happened to her, and what happened to the boy whose name she never
learned.
But when the boy, Lock, shows up at Ciela's school, he has no memory of
that night, and no clue that a single piece of mirrored glass is taking
his life apart. Ciela decides to help him, which means hiding the truth
about that night. Because Ciela knows who assaulted her, and him. And
she knows that her survival, and his, depend on no one finding out what
really happened.