Something Kindred

Magical realism meets Southern Gothic in this commanding young adult debut from Ciera Burch about true love,the meaning of homeand the choices that haunt us. Welcome to Coldwater. Come for the ghostsstay 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 ColdwaterMarylanda small town where her estranged grandmother livesΓÇöa grandmother she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left JerickaΓÇÖs mother and uncle when they were children. But now Jericka’s grandmother is dyingand her mother has dragged Jericka along to say goodbye. As Jericka attempts to form a connection with a woman she’s never knownand adjusts to life in a town where everything closes before dinnershe meets Kata girl eager to leave Coldwater and more exciting than a person has any right to be. But Coldwater has a few secrets of its own. As Jericka wrestles with the ghosts of her familyΓÇÖs pastshe begins to question everything she thought she knew about her motherher childhoodand the lines between the living and the dead.