Reviewers, booksellers, librarians, and anyone else who typically receives advance copies of books: My March 2016 YA novel, The Steep and Thorny Way, is now available to request on NetGalley. Request it here.
Here's what you'll find in the novel . . .
A reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet
A 1920s setting that includes moonshine, outlaws, and the KKK's takeover of Oregon
A biracial teenage protagonist
A murder
An unexpected friendship
A boy who's dealing with the challenges of being gay in 1923 America
Prejudice
The occult
Love
Hate
A dark and lovely forest
A ghost
Last night I read through the novel for the final time before the book heads off to print, and I actually cried. I love this book so much, but it's time for me to let it go and send these characters off into the world.
Amulet Books will release The Steep and Thorny Way March 8, 2016.
—April Genevieve Tucholke, author of Wink, Poppy, Midnight