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【愛之入骨，註定孤獨】Bones and All《骨肉的總和》
少女 Maren 從小就對人肉十分飢渴，尤其是那些對她表達善意、愛意的人們，總是讓 Maren 產生強烈的吃人慾望。這導致她無法過上正常的生活，也漸漸蜷縮在社會角落生存。Maren 決定找到親生父親，解開自己食人血脈之謎，從此踏上尋父之旅。漫漫旅途中，她遇見和她同處困境的善心青年 Lee。雖然出身不幸的家庭，依然樂觀而貼心的 Lee 讓 Maren 不禁動心，隨著兩人感情越發親密，Maren 也擔心這份感情將再次觸發自己的食人慾望，最終導致悲劇一場…
《骨肉的總和 𝘽𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙡》看似是一部血腥駭人的小說，實則是藉這血淋淋的食人慾，帶出無法為社會接受，剝奪愛與被愛的那些邊緣族群。而透過 Maren 和 Lee 的故事與尋找自我的旅程，讀者非但不受驚嚇，反倒心生一絲憐憫與共鳴。在這偌大的世界，每個人都希望能被接住，即便與他人有點不同，有點獨特，只要那個他／她能懂，也能得到一線救贖，再次對生命懷抱希望。
2015 Alex Award Recipient!
Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. She wants to be loved. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's done to her family and her sense of identity; for how it dictates her place in the world and how people see her--how they judge her. She didn't choose to be this way.
Because Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. Ever since her mother found Penny Wilson's eardrum in her mouth when Maren was just two years old, she knew life would never be normal for either of them. Love may come in many shapes and sizes, but for Maren, it always ends the same-with her hiding the evidence and her mother packing up the car.
But when her mother abandons her the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, and finds much more than she bargained for along the way.
Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she's looking for herself.
Camille DeAngelis' Bones & All is an astonishingly original coming-of-age tale that is at once a gorgeously written horror story as well as a mesmerizing meditation on female power and sexuality.
