Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All is now available to stream!
He put the cicada shell in my palm and I looked at it. Something flickered then, in a dark corner of my mind: I knew about things that weren't meant to be eaten.
On the surface, Maren Yearly seems like an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl: bookish and shy, with a predilection for head-to-toe black. She and her mother move from state to state, school to school and job to job, and while the girl does make friends from time to time, she has an awful lot of trouble keeping them. Maren wears black so the blood won’t show.
Bones & All follows this introverted girl-monster as she meets fellow eaters and potential victims on a search for the father she never knew. And when her travels are finished, Maren must confront the horrific birthright she’d give anything to erase.
Bones & All won a 2016 Alex Award from the American Library Association!
Why the heck would a vegan write a novel about cannibals?!
The vegan/cannibal conundrum (YouTube video)
Bones & All book-to-film public playlist on YouTube (sign up for access to the extended playlist, and feel free to email me if you don't receive the welcome email and have already checked your spam folder)
No Bones at All (vegan food/lifestyle/travel series on YouTube, 2022)
Film updates on Deadline
International Editions:
As of November 2022, current or forthcoming translations include Italian, French, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Portuguese (with both Brazilian and Portuguese publishers), and Japanese.
Where to Buy:
Audiobook (narrated by the marvelous Julia Knippen)
Porter Square Books (no longer my local indie, but still my all-time favorite!)