Compound Fracture
Andrew Joseph White
  • Published: 3 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593946923
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Childrens
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

Compound Fracture

  • Andrew Joseph White
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From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White, a queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches—following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.

On the night Miles Abernathy—sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian—comes out as trans to his parents, he sneaks off to a party, carrying evidence that may finally turn the tide of the blood feud plaguing Twist Creek: Photos that prove the county’s Sheriff Davies was responsible for the so-called “accident” that injured his dad, killed others, and crushed their grassroots efforts to unseat him.

The feud began a hundred years ago when Miles’s great-great-grandfather, Saint Abernathy, incited a miners’ rebellion that ended with a public execution at the hands of law enforcement. Now, Miles becomes the feud’s latest victim as the sheriff’s son and his friends sniff out the evidence, follow him through the woods, and beat him nearly to death.

In the hospital, the ghost of a soot-covered man hovers over Miles’s bedside while Sheriff Davies threatens Miles into silence. But when Miles accidently kills one of the boys who hurt him, he learns of other folks in Twist Creek who want out from under the sheriff’s heel. To free their families from this cycle of cruelty, they’re willing to put everything on the line—is Miles?

A visceral, unabashedly political audiobook that won’t let you go until you’ve reached the end, Compound Fracture is not for the faint of heart, but it is for every listener who's ready to fight for a better world.
  • Published: 3 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593946923
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Childrens
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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Praise for The Spirit Bares its Teeth:

A Chicago Public Library 'Best of the Best' Book
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year!
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

* “Redefines the concept of a ‘visceral’ book.”—Booklist, Starred Review

* “Visceral and vindicating.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

* “Uplifting and empowering.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

* “[A] riveting, spellbinding Victorian horror.”—Shelf Awareness, Starred Review

* “White brings such raw agony, power, and desperation to his complex and layered characters that it is impossible to not feel immediately sympathetic and deeply invested in their survival.”—The Bulletin for the Center of Children’s Books, Starred Review

“A merciless yet masterful dissection of gothic horror that spares no anesthesia, and thankfully so. The hauntings in these pages will find their way into you, so deep that nothing will be able to cut them out.”  —Ryan La Sala, bestselling author of The Honeys and Beholder

“With surgical precision, The Spirit Bares its Teeth exposes the menace of conformity in society. I devoured every vicious and human sentence. Let Silas Bell tear you apart, then stitch you back together.” —Trang Thanh Tran, New York Times bestselling author of She is a Haunting

“This book will slice you open, shift through your insides, and stitch you closed anew.”—Kayla Cottingham, New York Times bestselling author of My Dearest Darkest

Praise for Hell Followed with Us:

A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
A William C. Morris Award Finalist
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A YAVA Award Nominee
A Booklist Editors' Choice Selection
A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book
Named to the ALA Rainbow Roundtable's Rainbow Book List

“[B]ristles with energy and intensity, written with a kind of gleeful ferocity. . . . [responds] with a long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus.”—The New York Times

* “[An] astounding and exhilarating debut. . . .”—Booklist, Starred Review

* “A gloriously ferocious and scorching blaze.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

* “[A] moving and timely tale of queer perseverance, offering hope for those fighting for the right to exist without apology.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review