A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of 2020
A SLJ Best Book of 2020
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2020
A 2020 BCCB Blue Ribbon List title
"Move over, Louisa May Alcott! Samantha Mabry has written her very own
magical Little Women for our times." --Julia Alvarez, author of How
the García Girls Lost Their Accents
In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Award-longlisted novel All
the Wind in the World, Samantha Mabry weaves an aching, magical novel
that is one part family drama, one part ghost story, and one part love
story.
The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic
widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San
Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along
with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the
oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later,
her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still
consumed by grief and haunted by their sister's memory. Their dream of
leaving Southtown now seems out of reach. But then strange things start
happening around the house: mysterious laughter, mysterious shadows,
mysterious writing on the walls. The sisters begin to wonder if Ana
really is haunting them, trying to send them a message--and what exactly
she's trying to say.
In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Award-longlisted novel All
the Wind in the World, Samantha Mabry weaves an aching, magical novel
that is one part family drama, one part ghost story, and one part love
story.
