Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Something Kindred by Ciera Burch. This tour is being hosted by the publisher.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | On sale April 2, 2024 | ISBN: 9780374389130 | Hardcover | Ages 12-18 | 304 pages | $19.99
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Magical realism meets Southern Gothic in this commanding young
adult debut from Ciera Burch about true love, the meaning of
home, and the choices that haunt us.
Welcome to Coldwater. Come for the ghosts, stay for the drama.
Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year
soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead
she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark
and complicated past where her estranged grandmother
lives—someone she knows only two things about: her name and the
fact that she left Jericka’s mother and uncle when they were children.
But now Jericka’s grandmother is dying, and her mother has
dragged Jericka along to say goodbye.
As Jericka attempts to form a connection with a woman she’s never
known, and adjusts to life in a town where everything closes before dinner, she meets “ghost girl” Kat, a girl
eager to leave Coldwater and more exciting than a person has any right to be. But Coldwater has a few
unsettling secrets of its own. The more you try to leave, the stronger the town’s hold. As Jericka feels the
chilling pull of her family’s past, she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her mother,
her childhood, and the lines between the living and the dead.
“A double exposure of heartbreaking beauty and electric prose, Something Kindred tenderly beckons you to a town
haunted by memories and asks you to stay awhile.”
—Jas Hammonds, award-winning author of We Deserve Monuments
Ciera Burch is a lifelong writer and ice cream aficionado. She has a B.A from American University and an
MFA from Emerson College. Her fiction has appeared in American Literary Magazine, Underground, the art
and literary journal of Georgia State University, Stork, and Blackbird. While she is originally from New
Jersey, she currently resides in Boston with her stuffed animals and far too many books.
