Rory Power with Karen McManus, Wilder Girls

Local author Rory Power launches her "evocative, haunting... bewitching"(Booklist) YA debut, Wilder Girls, in conversation with Karen M. McManus. 

 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, new debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything you've read before.
 
It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's 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 don't dare wander outside the school's 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 there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.

Rory Power grew up in Boston, received her undergraduate degree at Middlebury College, and went on to earn an MA in prose fiction from the University of East Anglia. She lives in Massachusetts. Wilder Girls is her first novel. To learn more about Rory, go to itsrorypower.com and follow @itsrorypower on Twitter and Instagram.

Karen M. McManus is the author of the New York Times and international bestselling young adult novels One of Us Is Lying and Two Can Keep a Secret. Her work has been translated into 40 languages worldwide. Karen lives in Massachusetts and holds a master's degree in Journalism from Northeastern University, which she mostly uses to draft fake news stories for her novels. You can find Karen at @writerkmc on Twitter and Instagram.

Event date: 

Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 7:00pm

Event address: 

Porter Square Books
25 White St.
Cambridge, MA 02140
Wilder Girls By Rory Power Cover Image
$18.99
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ISBN: 9780525645580
Published: Delacorte Press - July 9th, 2019

Two Can Keep a Secret By Karen M. McManus Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781524714727
Availability: Available to Order from Supplier: Arrives at Store in a Week(ish)
Published: Delacorte Press - January 8th, 2019

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