**In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds
reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the
overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. Two British Indian teens cut
off from their heritage find solace in each other in this gothic
Wuthering Heights YA remix that subverts the default whiteness of the
original text.
Sometimes, lost things find their way home...*
Yorkshire, North of England, 1786. As the abandoned son of a
lascar--a sailor from India--Heathcliff has spent most of his young life
maligned as an "outsider." Now he's been flung into an alien life in the
Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father's language even
though it makes the children of the house call him an animal, and the
maids claim he speaks gibberish.
Catherine is the younger child of the estate's owner, a daughter with
light skin and brown curls and a mother that nobody talks about. Her
father is grooming her for a place in proper society, and that's all
that matters. Catherine knows she must mold herself into someone pretty
and good and marriageable, even though it might destroy her spirit.
As they occasionally flee into the moors to escape judgment and share
the half-remembered language of their unknown kin, Catherine and
Heathcliff come to find solace in each other. Deep down in their souls,
they can feel they are the same.
But when Catherine's father dies and the household's treatment of
Heathcliff only grows more cruel, their relationship becomes strained
and threatens to unravel. For how can they ever be together, when loving
each other--and indeed, loving themselves--is as good as throwing
themselves into poverty and death?
Praise for What Souls Are Made Of:
"With its brooding characters, gorgeous setting, and a romance that
sparkles with electricity, this retelling of Wuthering Heights
breathes fresh air into an old classic." --Stacey Lee, *New York
Times-*bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl and Luck of the
Titanic
