Description
Six wealthy private-school girls build a secret world of dares, obsessions, and dangerous games—meeting after class in a half-constructed building that feels abandoned by everyone except the creatures that thrive there. When their new teacher, Miss Clara, begins to unravel under the weight of trauma and a fierce need to become her deceased mother, the clique’s cruelty turns into something more intimate and more lethal, drawing each girl toward her own private horror. As Clara’s terror and panic collide with the girls’ predatory fascination, the novel moves through unsettling flashbacks that reveal how fear, puberty, faith, and performance can become a kind of ritual. With Mónica Ojeda’s lyrical, sinuous prose and sharp eye for the mechanics of looking, *Jawbone* is a gothic, psychologically charged meditation on power, gendered violence, and the beauty that can grow out of death.
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paperback
Dead Ink
Published Jan 1, 2022
ISBN: 9781838171629
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Details
First Published
2022
Language
spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda.