In Wild Beauty, acclaimed YA author Anna Marie Mc Lemore introduces a spellbinding setting and two characters who are drawn together by fateand pulled apart by reality.Love grows such strange things.For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, the lush estate gardens that enchant guests from around the world. Theyve also hidden a tragic legacy: if they fall in love too deeply, their lovers vanish. But then, after generations of vanishings, a strange boy appears in the gardens.The boy is a mystery to Estrella, the Nomeolvides girl who finds him, and to her family, but hes even more a mystery to himself; he knows nothing more about who he is or where he came from than his first name. As Estrella tries to help Fel piece together his unknown past, La Pradera leads them to secrets as dangerous as they are magical in this stunning exploration of love, loss, and family.Anna Marie Mc Lemore's debut novel The Weight of Feathers garnered fabulous reviews and was a finalist for the prestigious YALSA Morris Award, and her second novel, When the Moon was Ours, was longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.Praise for Wild Beauty:No one does magical realism quite like Mc Lemore, and this third novel, laced with slowburning suspense, folklore, romance, and spun together with exquisite, luxuriant prose, proves it.... Sheer magic: fierce, bright, and blazing with possibility. Booklist, starred review"A solid, musthave addition to Mc Lemores growing body of work, this fantastical tale will delight her fans and entice a new audience." School Library Journal, starred review
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