Bones & All: A Novel

2015 Alex Award Recipient! Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. She wants to be loved. But her secret shameful needs have forced her into exile. She hates herself for the bad thing she does for what its done to her family and her sense of identity; for how it dictates her place in the world and how people see her--how they judge her. She didnt choose to be this way. Because Maren Yearly doesnt just break hearts she devours them. Ever since her mother found Penny Wilsons eardrum in her mouth when Maren was just two years old she knew life would never be normal for either of them. Love may come in many shapes and sizes but for Maren it always ends the same-with her hiding the evidence and her mother packing up the car. But when her mother abandons her the day after her sixteenth birthday Maren goes looking for the father she has never known and finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters potential enemies and the prospect of love Maren realizes she isnt only looking for her father shes looking for herself. Camille DeAngelis Bones & All is an astonishingly original coming-of-age tale that is at once a gorgeously written horror story as well as a mesmerizing meditation on female power and sexuality.