Something Kindred [Paperback]

Magical realism meets Southern Gothic in this commanding young adult debut from Ciera Burch about true love, the meaning of home, and the choices that haunt us.

Welcome to Coldwater. Come for the ghosts, stay for the drama.

Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother livessomeone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jerickas mother and uncle when they were children. But now Jericka's grandmother is dying, and her mother has dragged Jericka along to say goodbye.

As Jericka attempts to form a connection with a woman she's never known, and adjusts to life in a town where everything closes before dinner, she meets ghost girl Kat, a girl eager to leave Coldwater and more exciting than a person has any right to be. But Coldwater has a few unsettling secrets of its own. The more you try to leave, the stronger the towns hold. As Jericka feels the chilling pull of her familys past, she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her mother, her childhood, and the lines between the living and the dead.

Ciera Burchis a lifelong writer and ice cream aficionado. She has a B.A from American University and an MFA from Emerson College. Her fiction has appeared inAmerican Literary Magazine,Underground, the art and literary journal of Georgia State University,Stork, andBlackbird. While she is originally from New Jersey, she currently resides in Washington, D.C. with her stuffed animals and far too many books.

A double exposure of heartbreaking beauty and electric prose,Something Kindredtenderly beckons you to a town haunted by memories and asks you to stay awhile. Jas Hammonds, award-winning author ofWe Deserve Monuments

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