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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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Veteran fantasy and sci-fi author V.E. Schwab delivers a sweeping sapphic vampire epic that moves from 16th-century Spain to 1827 London to contemporary Boston. Schwab folds in elements of horror, historical fiction, and gender politics, too. This is Schwab’s third GCA prize, with previous wins in both the YA and adult categories.

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