Book description
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.
Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her…
Why read it?
1 author picked Fruit of the Dead as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love a complicated mother-daughter story and I love a camp-gone-wrong story and this has both. It's also a retelling of the myth of Persephone and Demeter, so it really ticked so many of my boxes.
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