Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack romance novels are sweet and delicious. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon - like all other book eater women-is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories.īut real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger - not for books, but for human minds. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.ĭevon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. Truth is found between the stories we're fed and the stories we hunger for. A delicious modern fairy tale."- Christopher Buehlman, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is "a darkly sweet pastry of a book about family, betrayal, and the lengths we go to for the ones we love.
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