288 pages |Paperback

In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Awardlonglisted novelAll the Wind in the World,Samantha Mabry weaves a magical, romantic, own-voices novel about three sisters shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house.

AKirkus ReviewsBest Young Adult Book of 2020
ASLJBest Book of 2020
AShelf AwarenessBest Book of 2020
A 2020 BCCB Blue Ribbon List title

Move over, Louisa May Alcott! Samantha Mabry has written her very own magicalLittle Womenfor our times. Julia Alvarez, author ofHow the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents

In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Award-longlisted novel All the Wind in the World, Samantha Mabry weaves an aching, magical novel that is one part family drama, one part ghost story, and one part love story.

The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later, her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still consumed by grief and haunted by their sisters memory. Their dream of leaving Southtown now seems out of reach. But then strange things start happening around the house: mysterious laughter, mysterious shadows, mysterious writing on the walls. The sisters begin to wonder if Ana really is haunting them, trying to send them a messageand what exactly shes trying to say.

In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Awardlonglisted novelAll the Wind in the World, Samantha Mabry weaves an aching, magical novel that is one part family drama, one part ghost story, and one part love story.