Bøger af Tyler Wetherall

Sissy has long lived an isolated itinerant existence with her single mother, Mou, who suffers from bouts of debilitating depression. The pair attempt a fresh start in a small town in the damp West Country of England, where Sissy strikes up a secret friendship with the charismatic, apparently fearless, Tegan.The two of them soon become so close that they feel like one being, wrapped around each other in bed at sleepovers, sending photographs to men they meet online in the MSN chat rooms of the 1990s, and scaring each other with reports of the girls being snatched at night in their small town.Sissy andTegan seek to shed their innocence with a "spell" that marks Sissy's passage from the mythic woods of childhood into a girlhood in which she is both in danger and deemed dangerous. In its aftermath, Sissy is confronted with past tragedies and present-day traumas, as her mother's mental illness escalates and Sissy's actions draw the unfortunate attention of the authorities. All the while her body beings to undergo strange changes, in a transformation that quickly turns from thrilling to harrowing.With deft notes of magical realism and a constant psychological acuity, Amphibians is a contemporary treasure for fans of Julie Buntin, Carmen Maria Machado and Melissa Febos.

From the day Sissy fights a boy in the playground in front of Tegan, they realise they are not like the other girls. Both raised in unusual families, they become so close they feel like one being, wrapped around each other in bed at sleepovers, sending photographs to men they meet online, scaring each other with reports of the girls being snatched at night in their town. But as their rituals push against the boundaries not only of childhood, but of possibility, Sissy feels herself transforming into something strange and terrifying.