Bones & All - by Camille Deangelis (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Camille DeAngelis' Bones & All is an astonishingly original coming-of-age tale that is at once a gorgeously written horror story as well as a mesmerizing meditation on female power and sexuality.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet!

Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. She wants to be loved. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's done to her family and her sense of identity; for how it dictates her place in the world and how people see her--how they judge her. She didn't choose to be this way.

Because Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. Ever since her mother found Penny Wilson's eardrum in her mouth when Maren was just two years old, she knew life would never be normal for either of them. Love may come in many shapes and sizes, but for Maren, it always ends the same--with her hiding the evidence and her mother packing up the car.

But when her mother abandons her the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, and finds much more than she bargained for along the way.

Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she's looking for herself.

Review Quotes

A 2015 Alex Award Recipient!

"[DeAngelis] successfully blends metaphor with the macabre...genuinely entertaining...Delicious fun." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A commentary on young women's sexuality, reliance on self, and being about who you are rather than where you came from...This novel is unique, edgy, and not to be missed!" --RT Book Reviews, 4.5 Stars, Top Pick

"Maren's loneliness makes her a vulnerable and completely believable protagonist...DeAngelis doesn't shy away from Maren's dark nature but manages to keep her sweet...giving us a portrait of a young girl who wants to fit in." --Library Journal

"DeAngelis's ability to tell an engaging story that draws the reader in makes this quirky read a real page-turner." --NY Journal of Books

"A powerful story of a young woman learning to embrace her deepest secrets, and her darkest needs." --Chevy Stevens, bestselling author of Still Missing, Never Knowing and Always Watching

"DeAngelis has invented a fierce new form of human predator." --Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa and Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

"A dark and mesmerizing vision of adolescent desire--this book will devour you." --Robin Wasserman, author of The Waking Dark and The Cold Awakening series

"A spellbinding book full of horrors wrapped in sweetness and longing and finding one's way in the world, or maybe it's the other way around." --Carolyn Turgeon, author of Mermaid

"A dark and delicious tale full of unexpected twists that will keep readers turning the pages." --John Searles, bestselling author of Help for the Haunted and Strange But True

"From its opening, grab-you-by-the-gut paragraph to its chilling, perfect ending, I was captivated by the story of Maren Yearly, a character unlike any I've ever encountered before. Bones & All is a riveting, utterly original, and unexpectedly tender exploration of one of the scariest things in the world: growing up." --Elizabeth Little, author of Dear Daughter

About the Author

Camille DeAngelis is the author of several novels for adults--each of them as full of impossible things as The Boy From Tomorrow--as well as a travel guide to Ireland and the nonfiction books Life Without Envy: Ego Management for Creative People and A Bright Clean Mind: Veganism for Creative Transformation. Her young adult novel Bones & All won an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2016. She lives in Washington, DC.