American Horror Story meets the dark comedy of Kafkaâs The Metamorphosis as Cat searches for a way to escape her high school. A tale of family, love, tragedy, and masksâthe ones others make for us, and the ones we make for ourselves. Katzenjammer will haunt fans of Chelsea Pitcherâs This Lie Will Kill You and E. Lockhartâs We Were Liars.
Cat lives in her high school. She never leaves, and for a long time her school has provided her with everything she needs. But now things are changing. The hallways contract and expand along with the schoolâs breathing, and the showers in the bathroom run a bloody red. Catâs best friend is slowly turning into cardboard, and instead of a face, Cat has a cat mask made of her own hardened flesh.
Cat doesnât remember why she is trapped in her school or why half of themâCat includedâare slowly transforming. Escaping has always been the one impossibility in her schoolâs upside-down world. But to save herself from the eventual self-destruction all the students face, Cat must find the way out. And to do that, sheâll have to remember what put her there in the first place.
Using chapters alternating between the past and the present, acclaimed author Francesca Zappia weaves a spine-tingling, suspenseful, and haunting story about tragedy and the power of memories. Fans of Marieke Nijkampâs This Is Where It Ends and Karen McManusâs One of Us Is Lying will lose themselves in this novelâor maybe in the treacherous hallways of the school.
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