Campisi Megan - Sin Eater A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: For fans of The Handmaid's Tale. a debut novel with a dark setting and an unforgettable heroine. is a riveting depiction of hard - won female empowerment (The Washington Post). The Sin Eater walks among us unseen unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave unseen unheard The Sin Eater Walks Among Us. For the crime of stealing bread fourteen - year - old May receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater a shunned woman brutally marked whose fate is to hear the final confessions of the dying eat ritual foods symbolizing their sins as a funeral rite and thereby shoulder their transgressions to grant their souls access to heaven. Orphaned and friendless apprenticed to an older Sin Eater who cannot speak to her May must make her way in a dangerous and cruel world she barely understands. When a deer heart appears on the coffin of a royal governess who did not confess to the dreadful sin it represents the older Sin Eater refuses to eat it. She is taken to prison tortured and killed. To avenge her death May must find out who placed the deer heart on the coffin and why. Very much reminiscent of The Handmaid's Tale it transcends its historical roots to give us a modern heroine (Kirkus Reviews). A novel as strange as it is captivating (Buzz Feed) The Sin Eater is a treat for fans of feminist speculative fiction (Publishers Weekly) and exactly what historical fiction lovers have unknowingly craved (New York Journal of Books).
Title: Sin Eater A Novel
Author(s): Campisi Megan
Publisher: Atria Books
Barcode: 9781982124113
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/13/2021
Category: Historical Fiction