Tigers, Not Daughters

"Move over, Louisa May Alcott Samantha Mabry has written her very own magical Little Women for our times." --Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garc a Girls Lost Their Accents

In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Award-longlisted novel All the Wind in the World, Samantha Mabry weaves an aching, magical novel that is one part family drama, one part ghost story, and one part love story.

The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later, her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still consumed by grief and haunted by their sister's memory. Their dream of leaving Southtown now seems out of reach. But then strange things start happening around the house: mysterious laughter, mysterious shadows, mysterious writing on the walls. The sisters begin to wonder if Ana really is haunting them, trying to send them a message--and what exactly she's trying to say.

In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Award-longlisted novel All the Wind in the World, Samantha Mabry weaves an aching, magical novel that is one part family drama, one part ghost story, and one part love story.


Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
Published: 03/24/2020
ISBN: 9781616208967
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/13/2020
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2020 pg. 148
School Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 74
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2020 - Book Of Special Distinction
Booklist 03/15/2020 pg. 60
Shelf Awareness 03/31/2020