When we Were Animals

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Call Number: Fiction / Gaylord, Joshua
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Gaylord, Joshua	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Gaylord, Joshua	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she wouldn't have guessed she would become a kind suburban wife, a devoted mother. In fact, she never thought she would escape her small and peculiar hometown. When We Were Animals is Lumen's confessional: as a well-behaved and over-achieving teenager, she fell beneath the sway of her community's darkest, strangest secret. For one year, beginning at puberty, every resident "breaches" during the full moon. On these nights, adolescents run wild, destroying everything in their path. Lumen resists. Promising her father she will never breach, she investigates the mystery of her community's traditions and the stories erased from the town record. But the more we learn about the town's past, the more we realize that Lumen's memories are harboring secrets of their own. A gothic coming-of-age tale for modern times, When We Were Animals is a dark, provocative journey into the American heartland."-- Provided by publisher.

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Disturbing submitted by jdgerich on August 3, 2015, 7:55pm A small town coming-of-age ritual that's kept a secret from other towns, plus the main character's personal secret make you want to read to the end. But it's a dark book - don't read if you're looking for a light beach read or something uplifting.