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 fairytales 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.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. When not reading, running, falling over in yoga, or rolling d20s, she sometimes escapes the city to wildswim in lonely dales. 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. Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters, is an autistic author of fantasy fiction.Originally born in the States and raised in Hong Kong, she now lives in Yorkshire with her children. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack romance novels are sweet and delicious. Download a FREE sneak peek today!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. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope of queer identity and learning to accept who you are of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut.
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