Wilder Girls
by Rory Power
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
The perfect kind of story for our current era.--Hypable
From the author of Burn Our Bodies Down, a feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears. This fresh debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything youve read before. Its been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hettys life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls dont dare wander outside the schools fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that theres more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true. And dont miss Rory Powers second novel, Burn Our Bodies Down! Praise for Wilder Girls 4 STARRED REVIEWS! Take Annihilation, add a dash of Contagion, set it at an all-girls academy, and youll arrive at Rory Powers occasionally shocking and always gripping Wilder Girls.--Refinery29 This thrilling saga...is sure to be one of the seasons most talked-about books, in any genre.--EW Fresh and horrible and beautiful....readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls.--NPR
The perfect kind of story for our current era.--Hypable
From the author of Burn Our Bodies Down, a feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears. This fresh debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything youve read before. Its been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hettys life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls dont dare wander outside the schools fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that theres more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true. And dont miss Rory Powers second novel, Burn Our Bodies Down! Praise for Wilder Girls 4 STARRED REVIEWS! Take Annihilation, add a dash of Contagion, set it at an all-girls academy, and youll arrive at Rory Powers occasionally shocking and always gripping Wilder Girls.--Refinery29 This thrilling saga...is sure to be one of the seasons most talked-about books, in any genre.--EW Fresh and horrible and beautiful....readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls.--NPR
Product Details
Author: Rory Power
Language: English
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date: 2019-07-09
Pages: 368
ISBN: 0525645586
ISBN13: 9780525645580