VIRTUAL - Andrew Joseph White - THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH

Brazos Bookstore will host Andrew Joseph White virtually on Saturday, November 11 at 6:00pm CT.

Andrew Joseph White will be in conversation with Forever Young Adult's Mandy Curtis. 

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare. New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time!

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.

London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old trans, autistic Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife.

After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Finishing School and Sanitorium. When the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s innards and expose its guts to the world—so long as the school doesn’t break him first.

Featuring an autistic trans protagonist in a historical setting, Andrew Joseph White’s much-anticipated sophomore novel does not back down from exposing the violence of the patriarchy and the harm inflicted on trans youth who are forced into conformity.

Andrew Joseph White is a queer, trans, New York Times bestselling author from Virginia, where he grew up falling in love with monsters and wishing he could be one too. He received his MFA in creative writing from Geroge Mason University in 2022. Find him at AndrewJosephWhite.com or on Twitter @AJWhiteAuthor. 

Mandy Curtis (she/her) is a writer for Forever Young Adult, a site for YA fans who are a little less "Y" and a bit more "A." She's been known to forego many a social engagement before she's too immersed in a book to put it down. Currently living in Austin, TX, with her husband, son, and dogs, Mandy loves genre books, superheroes, and pretty much any show or movie with "Star" in the name.