Joshua Gaylord
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.6 | 2238 Users | 359 Reviews
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| Title | : | When We Were Animals |
| Author | : | Joshua Gaylord |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | June 28th 2016 by Mulholland Books (first published April 21st 2015) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Young Adult. Fantasy. Contemporary. Coming Of Age. Mystery |
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A small, quiet Midwestern town, which is unremarkable save for one fact: when the teenagers reach a certain age, they run wild.When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she wouldn't have guessed she would become a kind suburban wife, a devoted mother. In fact, she never thought she would escape her small and peculiar hometown. When We Were Animals is Lumen's confessional: as a well-behaved and over-achieving teenager, she fell beneath the sway of her community's darkest, strangest secret. For one year, beginning at puberty, every resident "breaches" during the full moon. On these nights, adolescents run wild, destroying everything in their path.
Lumen resists. Promising her father she will never breach, she investigates the mystery of her community's traditions and the stories erased from the town record. But the more we learn about the town's past, the more we realize that Lumen's memories are harboring secrets of their own.
A gothic coming-of-age tale for modern times, When We Were Animals is a dark, provocative journey into the American heartland.
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| ISBN: | 0316297909 (ISBN13: 9780316297905) |
| Literary Awards: | Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (2015) |
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Ratings: 3.6 From 2238 Users | 359 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books When We Were Animals
One of the best and most original coming of age stories I have ever read. A combination of beautiful prose and horrifying situations. I'll be thinking about this one for awhile.My So-Called Review Wow, this book! Not sure how to accurately describe my feelings about this one. Kinda felt like being punched in the gut, having my insides ripped out and then being left there, reeling from the shock of it all. When We Were Animals is raw, dark and surprising real. Its so beautifully written and Ill do my best to describe it without giving anything away. Our MC, Lumen, lives in a small, isolated town where teenagers experience something called breaching once they hit
3 1/2 starsOn the surface this book is a YA story that takes on a strange phenomena, something the sleepy Midwestern town keeps secret from outsiders. Starting at puberty, all the towns teenagers breach during the nights of the full moon. They rip their clothes off; destroy themselves and property; have indiscriminate sex with each other, only to wake up bloody and bruised the next morning. What really happens during the nights of the full moon? Why do the parents and town allow this to take
I downloaded this on a whim because it has a gorgeous cover, a female protagonist, andI think Ive written about this before, somewherea coming-of-age story that uses monstrousness and violence as a metaphor for that difficult process. However, there ended up being a little bit too much going on here, at least for me, and one reveal in particular took me all the way out of the story (it happens toward the end; I bet youll know it when you see it). In this town, teenagers breach, going feral at
4 1/2 stars *****The nitty-gritty: An allegorical story about one teens journey toward adulthood, and all the unusual challenges she and her friends must overcome.And it makes me wonder if one day I might be able to rediscover fully the child version of myself, before things fouled themselves up, when I was a little girl with commendable manners, when my father and I were two against the world, when my striving for goodness was so natural it was like leaves falling from trees everywhere around
I liked it. The book is about people getting in touch with their feral id, particularly teenagers when the moon is full. The book is smart and contemplative as well as entertaining. Although I felt the ending was incomplete and left me with some unanswered questions. Maybe it was supposed to.
It is a strange old world when a book that is about teenagers running literally wild is the most beautifully written novel you have read in a long time. But that is how "When we were Animals" was for me.It drew me in like magic - Lumen is a beacon, her story strange and full of wonder, a coming of age tale set in a small town somewhere that could be anywhere but where puberty happens differently. And yet in a lot of ways it happens just as it does everywhere else...During the full moon cycles in
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