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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Celebrates the resilience of girls and the earthshaking power of their friendships. An eerie, unforgettable triumph. --Claire Legrand, New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn Wilder Girls is so sharp and packs so much emotion in such wise ways. Im convinced were about to witness the emergence of a major new literary star. --Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation A feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears. This fresh debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything youve read before. Its been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hettys life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls dont dare wander outside the schools fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that theres more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true. And dont miss Rory Powers second novel, Burn Our Bodies Down Praise for Wilder Girls 4 STARRED REVIEWS Fresh and horrible and beautiful....readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls. - NPR This thrilling saga...is sure to be one of the seasons most talked-about books, in any genre. -- EW The perfect kind of story for our current era. -- Hypable Take Annihilation, add a dash of Contagion, set it at an all-girls academy, and youll arrive at Rory Powers occasionally shocking and always gripping Wilder Girls. -- Refinery29 About the Author Rory Power grew up in Boston, received her undergraduate degree at Middlebury College, and went on to earn an MA in prose fiction from the University of East Anglia. She lives in Massachusetts. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls and Burn Our Bodies Down . To learn more about Rory, go to itsrorypower.com and follow @itsrorypower on Twitter and Instagram.
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