An outstanding story in outstanding hands. Josh MalermanTheres something out there thats
killing. Known only as The Cur he leaves no traces save for the torn bodies of girls on the
verge of becoming women who are known as trouble-makers those who refuse to conform to know
their place. Girls who dont know when to shut up.2019: Thirteen-year-old Lila Sawyer has
secrets she cant share with anyone. Not the school psychologist shes seeing. Not her father
who has a new wife and a new baby. And not her motherthe infamous Caroline Sawyer a unique
artist whose eerie sculptures made from bent twigs and crimped leaves have made her a local
celebrity. But soon Lila feels haunted from within terrorized by a delicious evil that shows
her how to find her voiceuntil she is punished for using it.2004: Caroline Sawyer hears dogs
everywhere. Snarling barking teeth snapping that no one else seems to notice. At first she
blames the phantom sounds on her insomnia and her acute stress in caring for her ailing father.
But then the delusions begin to take shapeboth in her waking hours and in the violent
visceral sculptures she creates while in a trance-like state. Her fiancé is convinced she needs
help. Her new psychiatrist waives her problem away with pills. But Carolines past is a dark
cellar filled with repressed memories and a lurking horror that the men around her cant
understand.As past demons become a present threat both Caroline and Lila must chase the source
of this unrelenting oppressive power to its malignant core. Brilliantly paced unsettling to
the bone and unapologetically fierce Such a Pretty Smile is a powerful allegory for what it
can mean to be a woman and an untamed rallying cry for anyone ever told to sit down shut up
and smile pretty.A biting novel from an electrifying new voice Such a Pretty Smile is a
heart-stopping tour-de-force about powerful women angry men and all the ways in which girls
fight against the forces that try to silence them.
