The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
A Stonewall Honor Book in Young Adult Literature!

A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare.

New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time!

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.

London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old trans, autistic Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife.

After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Finishing School and Sanitorium. When the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s innards and expose its guts to the world—so long as the school doesn’t break him first.

Featuring an autistic trans protagonist in a historical setting, Andrew Joseph White’s much-anticipated sophomore novel does not back down from exposing the violence of the patriarchy and the harm inflicted on trans youth who are forced into conformity.

A Stonewall Honor Book in Young Adult Literature
A Chicago Public Library ‘Best of the Best’ Book
A Locus Award Finalist
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year
A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book!
A Booklist Editors’ Choice
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year!
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

From the Publisher

A letter from the author

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth is four hundred pages of anger, fear, queer history, ghosts, and graphic surgery. It’s about a trans, autistic boy struggling against the cruelty of Victorian England and helping the spirits of those who did not survive it. It is about trans people loving one another through tragedy, the importance of disabled perspectives, and a hundred terrible things attempting to smother what little light our characters find. It’s another rough one, of course, but did you really expect anything else from me?

I hope you love The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, its sweet, scared protagonist Silas, and the vicious girls of Braxton’s Finishing School and Sanatorium as much as I do.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BWQQ7FYR
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peachtree Teen (September 5, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 5, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4232 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 399 pages