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Author Campisi, Megan, 1976- author.

Title Sin eater / Megan Campisi.

Publication Info. New York : Atria Books, 2020.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F CAMPISI, M.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION CAMPISI    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  F CAMPISI, M.    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  F CAMPISI, M.    Storage
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION CAMPISI    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  CAMPISI, MEGAN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F CAMPISI, M.    In Transit +1 HOLD
 Plainville Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC CAMPISI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F CAMPISI MEGAN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC CAMPISI    Check Shelf
Edition First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Description 284 pages ; 23 cm
Summary "In Elizabeth I's England, a fourteen-year-old girl who steals a loaf of bread is sentenced to be a sin eater, a shunned woman who must assume the sins of the dead, and becomes drawn into a dangerous mystery at the heart of a corrupt and violent court. 'The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard / Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers / Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard / The Sin Eater Walks Among Us.' For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater -- a shunned woman, brutally marked, whose fate is to hear the final confessions of the dying, eat ritual foods symbolizing their sins as a funeral rite, and thereby shoulder their transgressions to grant their souls access to heaven. Orphaned and friendless, apprenticed to an older Sin Eater who cannot speak to her, May must make her way in a dangerous and cruel world she barely understands. When a deer heart appears on the coffin of a royal governess who did not confess to the dreadful sin it represents, the older Sin Eater refuses to eat it. She is taken to prison, tortured, and killed. To avenge her death, May must find out who placed the deer heart on the coffin and why." -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Forgiveness of sin -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction.
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term 1558-1603
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781982124106 (hardcover)
1982124105 (hardcover)
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