Trigger

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The Queens Gambit meets The Hunger Games in this brisk and brutalharrowing and intriguing (Kirkus Reviews) novel about a teen girl whose abusive father teaches her the finer points of chess and hunting, all for his own sinister endsdrawn from the authors own experiences.

For forever, Didi has had to be the best at anything her father demanded of herthe fastest runner, the master at chess, able to take down a deer with a bow and arrow at a dead sprint. If she fails, he denies her food. Clothes. Kindness. Yet he claims he loves herhe says he doesits why he pushes her. To be ready. Prepared. For anything. Ready to fight. Ready to

Didi is terrified of what he may one day ask.

But she might be more prepared than her father ever expected.

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Harrowing and intriguing. -- Kirkus Reviews * 1/15/2022 *
An intense read. -- School Library Journal * 6/1/2022 *

Author Bio

N. Griffin is the author ofThe Whole Stupid Way We Are, for which she was named one ofPublishers Weeklys Flying Start Authors of 2013, as well asJust Wreck It All,Smashie McPerterandThe Mystery of Room 11,Smashie McPerter and the Mystery of the Missing Goop, andTrigger. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.