![]() ![]() Agent: Suzie Townsend, New Leaf Literary. The thrilling plot proves thought-provoking, and it concludes with more questions than answers. Occasionally graphic and frequently featuring unthinkable conflicts, the narrative spotlights the importance of bodily autonomy and offers readers a glimpse into a murderous us-vs.-them mindset. This sets off a chain of events that plunges Nita further into the black market world, only this time as a commodity rather than a supplier. ![]() After Nita comes up against one hard and fast moral line she won’t cross-slicing pieces from a live specimen, a boy-she defies her cruel mother, who doesn’t take disobedience lightly. Nita, herself a self-healing unnatural, has the grim task of dissecting the corpses, though she likes it just fine. In Peru, 17-year-old Nita’s mother hunts and kills “unnaturals,” supernatural beings who coexist with humans, and her father sells their body parts online. Author Schaeffer debuts with a dark fantasy tale of survival. Title: Not even bones / Rebecca Schaeffer Description: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 Summary: Nita’s mother hunts and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online, but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she is sold on the black market in his place. ![]()
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