A Very Large Expanse of Sea Stocking Stuffer

A Very Large Expanse of Sea Stocking StufferFrom the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice. Its 2002, a year after 9 11. Its an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen year old Muslim girl whos tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. Shes tired of the

dancing in old barns until the sun comes up

Only one man is desperate to apply for the job: John Warlow

With text by renowned Gothic scholar Sir Christopher Frayling

and heart-stopping twists that only Maggie Stiefvater can conjure

Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures

Just when you thought it was safe to flush

But generations of men and boys have died on the same quest—how can an ordinary girl survive the epic tests of the archipelago

the Baby of the World

Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion

endured through Dry

the potent essence of youth

By early 1945