The Grace Year: A Novel [Paperback]

The instantNew York Timesbestseller, Kim Liggett'sThe Grace Yearis a speculative YA thriller in the vein ofThe Hunger GamesandThe Power, now in trade paperback.

No one speaks of the grace year. Its forbidden.

In Garner County, girls are banished for their sixteenth year to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage.

But not all of them will make it home alive.

Tierney James dreams of a better lifebut as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that theres more to fear about the grace year than the brutal elements and the poachers in the woods.

Their greatest threat may very well be each other.

With sharp prose and gritty realism, Liggett'sThe Grace Yearexamines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.

Kim Liggett is theNew York Timesand International bestselling author ofThe Grace Year, a Target, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million Book Club Pick, along with Amazon Editor's Young Adult Book of the Year for 2019, and winner of the 2020 Nous a Libre Prize for Young Adult Literature. Published in over twenty languages and counting,The Grace Yearcontinues to captivate readers of all ages from around the globe. Also an acclaimed horror writer, she is the author ofThe Last Harvest, winner of the 2018 Bram Stoker Award for Young Adult Literature,The Unfortunates, a YALSA quick pick for reluctant readers, and the Blood and Salt Duology. Originally from the rural midwest and a proud New Yorker for over twenty years, Liggett now resides in Los Angeles in a house covered with red flowers, where she happily tends to her hummingbird army.

Liggett's immersive storytelling effortlessly weaves horror elements with a harrowing and surprising survival story. Profound moments lie in small details, and rel³=