DECOMPOSITION BOOK BY SARA VAN OS

“A slippery page-turner that’s as profoundly beautiful as it is totally unhinged.”
Rachel Harrison,New York Timesbestselling author ofPlay NiceandSo Thirsty

“Intense, irreverent, surprising, raw.”
Natalia Theodoridou, author ofSour Cherry

An emotional, electrifying, and darkly hilarious debut about a woman who finds a dead body and cant give up its ghost, for fans of Mona Awad,Yellowjackets, and weird girl fiction.

Spiraling from a disastrous falling-out with her best friend, Savannah retreats to her parents empty lake house in upstate New York to tend her wounds. Isolated and reeling from rejection, she spends her days in a fog, drinking and overthinking in equal worrisome measure. Until she wakes up one morning in the woods behind the housenext to a dead body.

Instead of calling the police, Savannah reads the journal she finds nearby, reliving the last desperate months of this womans life lost in the wilderness, fighting for survival. Ava, as it turns out, is more than just a cold, lonely corpse. She was funny. She was smart. And Savannah has finally found someone she can talk to

As she pushes deeper into Avas harrowing story, Savannah notices a change, a shift in her reality. Each page brings her closer to the Ava from the journaland the ghost before her now. Before long, Savannah feels something for Ava she hasnt felt for anyone elseand theres a good chance letting go would haunt her for the rest of her life.

Is Savannah finally losing her grip? Or has she found the friend shes needed all along?

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