Burn Our Bodies Down
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Date Created
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July 2020
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Contributor
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Fern Hill
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Description
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Burn Our Bodies Down is an eerie horror novel following teenager Margot, who, after years of living alone with her mother’s toxicity, finds a piece of her mother’s hidden past and runs away to find out the truth about her family’s history. Margot ends up in the small town of Phalene, where she meets her grandmother for the first time. While staying with her grandmother, Margot uncovers the sinister reason her mother left Phalene in the first place. Burn Our Bodies Down is haunting in the best way possible and keeps readers hooked as they uncover familial secrets alongside Margot. During Margot’s time in Phalene, she makes friends, begins to understand why her mother is the way she is, and discovers herself. Burn Our Bodies Down was well received by audiences who enjoyed Power’s first novel, Wilder Girls, and who relish twisted family dynamics, farmland, and generational secrets.