Maryse Meijer

The Seventh Mansion (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"With astute empathy and tenderness, The Seventh Mansion brilliantly examines what it means to be human in a diminishing earthly world." -Crissy Van Meter, author of Creatures Nominated for the 2020 Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel One of The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of the Second-Half of 2020 One of Library Journal's 35 Standout Summer/Fall 2020 Debut Novels One of Shondaland's 11 New Books That Will Change How You Think About the Climate Crisis After moving from California to a rural Southern town to live with his father, fifteen-year-old Xie joins two new friends in freeing a captive mink from a local farm. When Xie is the only one caught and gets kicked out of high school, he becomes increasingly connected with nature, serving as a custodian for what others ignore, abuse, and discard. Exploring the woods alone one night, Xie discovers the relic of a Catholic saint-the martyred Pancratius-in a nearby church and develops a complex and passionate relationship with the bones and spirit of the saint, whom he calls P. As Xie's relationship deepens with P., so too does his relationship with the woods-private property that will soon be overrun with loggers. As Xie enacts a plan to save his beloved woods, he must also find a way to balance his conflicting-and increasingly extreme-ideals of purity, sacrifice, and responsibility in order to live in this world. The Seventh Mansion is a deeply moving and profoundly original debut novel-both an urgent literary call to arms and an unforgettable coming-of-age story about finding love and selfhood in the face of mass extinction and environmental destruction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374719012
• Artikelnr.: 58623323