Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart av GennaRose Nethercott

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<b>From the author of the breakout novel <i>Thistlefoot:</i> a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us—or go monstrously wrong.</b><br><br>The stories in <i>Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart</i> are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the hunger to be held, and seen, and known. And the terror, too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are.<br><br>Two teenage girls working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal Staircase explore its secrets—and their own doomed summer love. A zombie rooster plays detective in a missing persons case. A woman moves into a new house with her acclaimed artist boyfriend—and finds her body slowly shifting into something specially constructed to accommodate his needs and whims. A pack of middle schoolers