OUT OF SALEM

Book ID/图书代码： 12070019C00002

English Summary/英文概要： The best Teen Zombie Werewolf Witchy Faerie fantasy murder mystery you’ve ever read--by debut author, Hal Schrieve.

Genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with their mother’s friend, Mrs. Dunnigan, and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be-goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner. As Z struggles to find a way to repair the broken magical seal holding their body together, Aysel fears that her classmates will discover her status as an unregistered werewolf. When a local psychiatrist is murdered by what seems to be werewolves, the town of Salem, Oregon, becomes even more hostile to "monsters," and Z and Aysel are driven together in an attempt to survive a place where most people wish that neither of them existed.

Rarely has a first-time author created characters of such immediacy and power as Z, Aysel, Tommy (suspected fey) and Elaine (also a werewolf), or a world that parallels our own so clearly and disturbingly.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部来自新人作家Hal Schrieve的小说处女作可能是你读过的最好的少年僵尸狼人巫妖怪奇幻谋杀神秘小说。

性格古怪的14岁少女Z Chilworth在车祸中死里逃生后不得不面对作为僵尸的新身份。他的父母和姐妹都在车祸中丧生。Z本来是个很棒的女巫，现在却几乎无法使用魔法并开始迅速腐坏。她被原来的家人和老朋友所孤立，不得不搬去和母亲的朋友Dunnigan女士同住，并和同为独行侠的Aysel成为了朋友。正在Z试图找到修复魔法的方法时，Aysel正在担忧自己的同学会发现她是个未经注册的狼人。当地的一个精神科医生被狼人杀害，镇上的人对“怪物”变得更加有敌意，Z和Aysel只能被迫共同在一个不受欢迎的地方努力生存下去。

很少有小说处女作能够塑造如此强大的人物，并虚构出一个与真实世界如此相似又令人不安的世界。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：“Schrieve对一个类似怪物的90后的描写充满了隐喻和意义。”——Kyle Lukoff，图书管理员，著有《当Aidan做了哥哥》

“这是我读过的最棒的城市幻想小说。……极具有怀旧气息，又具有前瞻性，为该领域的作品设立了全新的标准。恐怖、美丽、令人兴奋……”——April Daniels，著有Nemesis三部曲

“是继《哈利波特》之后我们一直在等待的该类别的精彩小说……不仅仅是一部青少年小说……”——Cat Fitzpatrick，《同时在别处：科幻与幻想》编辑

"Lawlor teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College, including a trans and queer writing class, and reels off a list of peers they are excited by, including Kai Cheng Thom, author of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars; Rivers Solomon, who wrote the science fiction book An Unkindness of Ghosts; and Hal Schrieve, whose book Out of Salem Lawlor describes as “full of werewolves and zombies and witches, really fun and super trans”."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/05/andrea-lawlor-dont-want-to-be-representative-of-a-type
"Full of werewolves and zombies and witches, really fun and super trans."—Andrea Lawlor

Debut author Schrieve stuns with this tale set in a 1997 Salem, Ore., where the authorities control magic and the monsters are emphatically not the LGBTQ zombie and werewolf protagonists. Z, 14, had just begun to acknowledge their genderqueer identity when their entire family is killed in a car accident. Now a zombie without a custodian, Z faces slow degeneration and—until a widowed lesbian bookstore owner offers guardianship—the prospect of incineration. Z’s bullied classmate, Turkish Muslim Aysel Tahir, hasn’t come out as gay and lives secretly as an unregistered werewolf. Anti-monster sentiments across Salem reaches a fever pitch as a mysterious murder is pinned on werewolves; both students, fearing for their safety, must rely on trusted teacher and sorcerer Mr. Weber, a group of conflicted young adult werewolves, and fellow student Tommy, who has secrets of his own. Shrieve conjures intricate magic vital to the plot, pushes the book’s leads to grow amid the book’s ratcheting tension, and provides incisive social commentary via monster-tale tropes. Any reader who has felt it necessary to hide their true identity will find strong characters to connect with in this fun, powerful story. Ages 12–up. (Mar.)

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781609809010

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-2019-national-book-awards-longlist-young-peoples-literature

Out of Salem chosen by PW as one of 2019’s Best YA Books!

" Zombies, werewolves, witches, and other similar creatures show up a lot in YA literature, often serving as metaphors for the emotional changes, transforming bodies, and expanding abilities of adolescence. In Hal Schrieve’s Out of Salem, grieving, genderqueer, and now-undead Z may not have technically survived the crash that killed their family; while Aysel has always kept to herself—as an unregistered werewolf she is vulnerable to legal repercussions, and as a gay Turkish American fat girl she’s vulnerable to jerks at school. The two find themselves becoming friends, discovering community, and stretching into their identities at the same time that the town is experiencing a wave of paranoia and violence against monsters—the true moments of horror in this book come as the reader experiences Z and Aysel’s fear of exposure and persecution. Set in a misty small town reminiscent of Forks, WA, Out of Salem is like Twilight for real people."

https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/?detailStory=pondering-printz-willey-fantasy-genre-ya-ala-award

About the Author/作者介绍： Hal Schrieve，在华盛顿奥林匹亚长大，擅长做意大利烩饭和搭帐篷。曾担任过课外小组组长、夏令营辅导员、花商、家庭教师、杂货商和保姆。他目前的计划是当一名图书管理员。拥有华盛顿大学历史学学士学位和英语辅修学位，并在纽约皇后学院攻读图书馆学。他住在纽约布鲁克林，曾在《Vetch》杂志上发表诗歌。这是他的第一部小说。

Hal Schrieve grew up in Olympia, Washington, and is competent at making risotto and setting up a tent. Xie has worked as an after-school group leader, a summer camp counselor, a flower seller, a tutor, a grocer, and a babysitter. Hir current ambition is to become a librarian. Xie has a BA in history with a minor in English from University of Washington and studies library science at Queens College, New York. Xie lives in Brooklyn, New York, and hir poetry has appeared in Vetch magazine. This is hir first novel.

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