Trigger
Published on 29. March 2022
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-5344-8717-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Queen's Gambit meets The Hunger Games in this "brisk and brutal...harrowing and intriguing" (Kirkus Reviews) novel about a teen girl whose abusive father teaches her the finer points of chess and hunting, all for his own sinister ends...drawn from the author's own experiences.
For forever, Didi has had to be the best at anything her father demanded of her-the fastest runner, the master at chess, able to take down a deer with a bow and arrow at a dead sprint. If she fails, he denies her food. Clothes. Kindness. Yet he claims he loves her-he says he does-it's why he pushes her. To be ready. Prepared. For anything. Ready to fight. Ready to...
...Didi is terrified of what he may one day ask.
But she might be more prepared than her father ever expected.
For forever, Didi has had to be the best at anything her father demanded of her-the fastest runner, the master at chess, able to take down a deer with a bow and arrow at a dead sprint. If she fails, he denies her food. Clothes. Kindness. Yet he claims he loves her-he says he does-it's why he pushes her. To be ready. Prepared. For anything. Ready to fight. Ready to...
...Didi is terrified of what he may one day ask.
But she might be more prepared than her father ever expected.
Reviews / Votes
Harrowing and intriguing. -- Kirkus Reviews * 1/15/2022 * An intense read. -- School Library Journal * 6/1/2022 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Target group
Young adult
US School Grade: Ninth Grade and over, Interest Age: From 14 to 99 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
5C jkt (fx: none); digital
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
347 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5344-8717-8 (9781534487178)
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Person
N. Griffin is the author of The Whole Stupid Way We Are, for which she was named one of Publishers Weekly's Flying Start Authors of 2013, as well as Just Wreck It All, Smashie McPerter and The Mystery of Room 11, Smashie McPerter and the Mystery of the Missing Goop, and Trigger. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.