The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

The instant New York Times bestseller, Kim Liggett's The Grace Year is a speculative YA thriller in the vein of The Hunger Games and The Power, now in trade paperback.

No one speaks of the grace year. It's forbidden.

In Garner County, girls are banished for their sixteenth year to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage.

But not all of them will make it home alive.

Tierney James dreams of a better life--but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that there's more to fear about the grace year than the brutal elements and the poachers in the woods.

Their greatest threat may very well be each other.

With sharp prose and gritty realism, Liggett's The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.

Kim Liggett moved to New York City from her small midwestern town at the age of sixteen to pursue a career in music. She was a backup singer for some of the biggest rock bands in the 1980s, in addition to giving her voice to hundreds of studio recordings. Kim spends her free time reading tarot cards and searching Manhattan for unique perfume vials and the ideal egg white drink. The Grace Year, Blood and Salt, and The Final Harvest are among her works.