Something Kindred

Magical realism meets Southern Gothic in this commanding young adult debut from Ciera Burch about true love, the meaning of home, and the choices that haunt us. Welcome to Coldwater. Come for the ghosts, stay for the drama. Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town where her estranged grandmother lives?a grandmother she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka?s mother and uncle when they were children. But now Jericka's grandmother is dying, and her mother has dragged Jericka along to say goodbye. As Jericka attempts to form a connection with a woman she's never known, and adjusts to life in a town where everything closes before dinner, she meets Kat, a girl eager to leave Coldwater and more exciting than a person has any right to be. But Coldwater has a few secrets of its own. As Jericka wrestles with the ghosts of her family?s past, she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her mother, her childhood, and the lines between the living and the dead.

Author: Ciera Burch

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Publication Date: Apr 02, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 0374389136

ISBN-13: 9780374389130