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The Unfortunates

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Description

Kim Liggett's The Unfortunates is a haunting tale of privilege, guilt, and redemption from the author of the Bram Stoker Award winner, The Last Harvest

When seventeen-year-old senator's son Grant Tavish is involved in a fatal accident, all he wants to do is face the consequences of what he's done. But those consequences never come, even if headlines of "affluenza" do. The truth soon becomes clear: due to his father's connections, Grant is going to get away with murder.

As a family tradition approaches, a cave excursion on the Appalachian Trail, Grant seizes the opportunity to take justice into his own hands by staging an accident and never coming back. But before he has a chance to enact his plans, the cave system collapses, trapping him miles beneath the surface with four other teens from much less fortunate circumstances. As they struggle to survive, they share their innermost secrets and fears, and just when it seems they might be on track to finding a way out, they realize...

There's something else down there.

And it's hunting them.

Product Details

PublisherTor Teen
Publish DateAugust 06, 2019
Pages224
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780765381019
Dimensions8.3 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches | 0.5 pounds

About the Author

Kim Liggett is the New York Times and International bestselling author of The Grace Year, a Target, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million Book Club Pick, along with Amazon Editor's Young Adult Book of the Year for 2019, and winner of the 2020 Nous a Libre Prize for Young Adult Literature. Published in over twenty languages and counting, The Grace Year continues to captivate readers of all ages from around the globe. Also an acclaimed horror writer, she is the author of The Last Harvest, winner of the 2018 Bram Stoker Award for Young Adult Literature, The Unfortunates, a YALSA quick pick for reluctant readers, and the Blood and Salt Duology. Originally from the rural midwest and a proud New Yorker for over twenty years, Liggett now resides in Los Angeles in a house covered with red flowers, where she happily tends to her hummingbird army.

Reviews

“Wild, compulsive, and utterly gripping, Liggett’s subterranean thriller plumbs the depths of human darkness and guilt.”—Stephanie Kuehn, author of the Morris Award Winning Charm & Strange

“Absolutely spellbinding; a true tour de force. Haunting and heartbreakingly revealing--this is a book everyone is going to be talking about.”—Jasmine Warga, author of Here We Are Now

“Taut, surprising and Kim-Liggett-style creepy, The Unfortunates is a gripping journey both physical and psychological.”—Kelly Loy Gilbert, author of Conviction

"A mind-bending thriller you'll want to devour in one setting and immediately talk about with a friend. Read with the lights on." —Kara Thomas, author of Little Monsters

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