Creatures Of Want And Ruin

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Profound and enthralling. This book is a delicate dream, mixing its own internal mythology with a brutal tale of prejudice and human frailty. I cant recommend it enough. Tanzer is absolutely one to watch. Seanan McGuire, bestselling, award-winning author of In an Absent Dream

Amityville baywoman Ellie West fishes by day and bootlegs moonshine by night. Its dangerous work under Prohibitionindependent operators like her are despised by federal agents and mobsters alikebut Ellies brother was accepted to college and Ellies desperate to see him go. So desperate that when wealthy strangers ask her to procure libations for an extravagant party Ellie sells them everything she has, including some booze she acquired under unusual circumstances.

What Ellie doesnt know is that this booze is special. Distilled from foul mushrooms by a cult of diabolists, those who drink it see terrible thingslike the destruction of Long Island in fire and flood. The cult is masquerading as a church promising salvation through temperance and a return to the good old days, so its hard for Ellie to take a stand against them, especially when her father joins, but Ellie loves Long Island, and she loves her family, and shell do whatever it takes to ensure neither is torn apart.

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A Barnes & Noble Best Science Fiction Fantasy Book of November 2018 Molly Tanzer writes human darkness, intimacy, and joy with equal skill and fervor. Her characters blaze with life, straining against the bonds of society. Creatures of Want and Ruin is horrific fantasy that races along at a breathless clip, with family drama as the revving engine. If you havent read Molly Tanzer yet, this is the perfect time to start! Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Ararat

Author Bio

MOLLY TANZER is the Sydney J. Bounds and Wonderland Book Awardnominated author of Vermilion (an NPR and io9 Best Book of 2015), A Pretty Mouth, the historical crime novel The Pleasure Merchant, and other works. She lives in Longmont, Colorado.