
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.īut 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.įaced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she's looking for herself.Ĭamille 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. Ever since her mother found Penny Wilson's eardrum in her mouth when Maren was just two years old, she knew life would never be normal for either of them. She didn't choose to be this way.īecause Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's 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. Her latest novel, and her middle grade debut, is The Boy from Tomorrow. : Bones & All (9781250046529) by Deangelis, Camille and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great.

But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. DeAngelis is also the author of the short story The Coroners Bride.

She wants to be someone people admire and respect. Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do.
