Katzenjammer by Francesca Zappia

?_oAn eerie, savage novel.?__ ?_"Bulletin of the Center for Children?_Ts BooksAmerican Horror Story meets the dark comedy of Kafka?_Ts The Metamorphosis as Cat searches for a way to escape her high school. A tale of family, love, tragedy, and masks?_"the ones others make for us, and the ones we make for ourselves. Katzenjammer will haunt fans of Chelsea Pitcher?_Ts This Lie Will Kill You and E. Lockhart?_Ts We Were Liars. Cat lives in her high school. She never leaves, and for a long time her school has provided her with everything she needs. But now things are changing. The hallways contract and expand along with the school?_Ts breathing, and the showers in the bathroom run a bloody red. Cat?_Ts best friend is slowly turning into cardboard, and instead of a face, Cat has a cat mask made of her own hardened flesh. Cat doesn?_Tt remember why she is trapped in her school or why half of them?_"Cat included?_"are slowly transforming. Escaping has always been the one impossibility in her school?_Ts upside-down world. But to save herself from the eventual self-destruction all the students face, Cat must find the way out. And to do that, she?_Tll have to remember what put her there in the first place. Using chapters alternating between the past and the present, acclaimed author Francesca Zappia weaves a spine-tingling, suspenseful, and haunting story about tragedy and the power of memories. Fans of Marieke Nijkamp?_Ts This Is Where It Ends and Karen McManus?_Ts One of Us Is Lying will lose themselves in the pages of this novel?_"or maybe in the treacherous hallways of the school. Includes interior illustrations from the author.
Binding: Paperback / softback