The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White
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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Author: Andrew Joseph White

Narrator: Raphael Corkhill

Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/05/2023


Synopsis

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare.

New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time!

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.

London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old trans, autistic Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife.

After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Finishing School and Sanitorium. When the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s innards and expose its guts to the world—so long as the school doesn’t break him first.

Featuring an autistic trans protagonist in a historical setting, Andrew Joseph White’s much-anticipated sophomore novel does not back down from exposing the violence of the patriarchy and the harm inflicted on trans youth who are forced into conformity.

About The Author

Andrew Joseph White is a queer, trans author from Virginia, where he grew up falling in love with monsters and wishing he could be one too. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University in 2022  and has a habit of cuddling random street cats. Andrew writes about trans kids with claws and fangs, and what happens when they bite back.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ally

Got to read this early on account of the fact that I am literally marrying the author I watched this book go through so many iterations and changes and versions, become so many different things than it started out as, morph and change and transform into what it is here and damn, this is gonna mean t......more

Goodreads review by Chloe

So I went into The Spirit Bares It’s Teeth knowing I would be properly horrified and most likely sick to my stomach. I did not expect to feel so seen that I ached. Does the main character graphically and in full detail perform a c-section? Yes! Are the horrors that those deemed “unsavory” to society......more

Can I be fair and objective with this book? Probably not because I want White's literary voice to have existed in my life 20 years ago when I was a teenager who desperately needed a voice like his even though I didn't know it at the time and I'm so glad that it exists now that I have no words. When......more

When I tell ya'll that Andrew Joseph White does not fail me....I genuinely mean that. If you are interested in checking out more of my thoughts about this one, check out this video: [URL not allowed]-f0?si=90emB.........more