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An old adage says there are really only two stories: a man goes on a voyage, and a stranger arrives in town. This is the third: a woman breaks the rules . . .

Can you uncover the truth when you're forbidden from speaking it?

A Sin Eater's duty is…

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1 author picked Sin Eater as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book, quite frankly, blew my mind. That women in times past were forced into the role of sin eaters to take on the transgressions of the dying so the latter could ascend to heaven was disturbing, to say the least.

I felt for May, a fourteen-year-old girl who is newly sentenced to the fate of a sin eater—a job in which she is to remain poor, mute, and bear the ostracization of her community. But what kept me turning pages is the chilling mystery at its center. In the alternate Elizabethan court in which the book is set, someone…

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