"I devoured this."—V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue 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. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. 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 fairy tales and cautionary stories. But 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.
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The Book Eaters, is an USA Today & Sunday Times bestseller! Huge thanks to readers for your support ❤️ It was also shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award 2023, British Fantasy 2023, and was a Goodreads Choice nominee. Sending all my gratitude and love to folks :-) If you're waiting on translated editions, there should be versions coming out in Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, Thai, Ukrainian, Turkish, and Korean, with more on the way. Twitter || Facebook || Instagram || Sunyi Dean (sunn yee) is a biracial fantasy author who was born in Texas, grew up in Hong Kong, and now resides in the UK. She writes speculative fiction with a weird slant, and has both too many books and too many children. She is currently writing a historical fantasy / horror novel set in Hong Kong, inspired by her upbringing; her highschool was once a mission house built on the edge of the original Walled City, and her grandparents lived in Hong Kong through both World Wars.
