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Strange Creatures
by Phoebe North
I can't stop thinking about it, it was perfection. Strange Creatures is an expansive novel of struggles with mental health, queer love (sapphic desire), and adolescent trauma. It was everything I didn't know I needed as a queer nonbinary reader, it was poetic catharsis. Be careful, you might find yourself crying on the floor.
Strange Creatures is a coming-of-age story dedicated to all those that feel forgotten. Siblings Annie and Jamie are thick as thieves, as they create a Terabithian world in the woods behind their house, named Gumlea. This world is an escape from society and the gendered expectations that come with coming of age. Gumlea is a place of witches, pirates, and sirens. It is lush and atmospheric and has that mystical magic that can only be found in a child's mind.
One day, Jamie is gone, and Annie refuses to believe he has left without her. As her family's lives move on, she knows that he has made it to Gumlea, even if her therapist says otherwise. But she has to ask herself, why would Jamie leave her behind.
With beautiful prose, and experimental writing, this upper YA novel will satisfy and delight fans of Her Body and Other Parties and The Last True Poets of the Sea.
Strange Creatures is a coming-of-age story dedicated to all those that feel forgotten. Siblings Annie and Jamie are thick as thieves, as they create a Terabithian world in the woods behind their house, named Gumlea. This world is an escape from society and the gendered expectations that come with coming of age. Gumlea is a place of witches, pirates, and sirens. It is lush and atmospheric and has that mystical magic that can only be found in a child's mind.
One day, Jamie is gone, and Annie refuses to believe he has left without her. As her family's lives move on, she knows that he has made it to Gumlea, even if her therapist says otherwise. But she has to ask herself, why would Jamie leave her behind.
With beautiful prose, and experimental writing, this upper YA novel will satisfy and delight fans of Her Body and Other Parties and The Last True Poets of the Sea.