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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 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. She didn't choose to be this way. Because Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. 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. 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 isn't only looking for her father, she's 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.
About the Author
Camille DeAngelis is the author of Immaculate Heart (St. Martin's, 2016) , the Alex Award-winning Bones & All (St. Martin's, 2015) , Petty Magic: Being the Memoirs and Confessions of Miss Evelyn Harbinger, Temptress and Troublemaker (Crown, 2010) , and Mary Modern (Crown/Shaye Areheart, 2007) , as well as a first-edition guidebook, Moon Ireland (Avalon, 2007) . Her book of practical philosophy, Life Without Envy: Ego Management for Creative People, was published by St. Martin's Griffin in September 2016.She is a graduate of New York University (B.A. in Fine Arts, minor in Irish Studies, 2002) and the National University of Ireland, Galway (M.A. in Writing, 2005) . A longtime vegetarian, Camille went vegan in April 2011, and in June 2013 became a certified vegan lifestyle coach and educator through Victoria Moran's Main Street Vegan® Academy. Originally from New Jersey, Camille now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She is a board member of the Writers' Room of Boston.
