Katzenjammer

An eerie, savage novel. Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books

American Horror Story meets the dark comedy of Kafkas The Metamorphosis as Cat searches for a way to escape her high school. A tale of family, love, tragedy, and masksthe ones others make for us, and the ones we make for ourselves. Katzenjammer will haunt fans of Chelsea Pitchers This Lie Will Kill You and E. Lockharts 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 schools breathing, and the showers in the bathroom run a bloody red. Cats best friend is slowly turning into cardboard, and instead of a face, Cat has a cat mask made of her own hardened flesh.

Cat doesnt remember why she is trapped in her school or why half of themCat includedare slowly transforming. Escaping has always been the one impossibility in her schools 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, shell 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 Nijkamps This Is Where It Ends and Karen McManuss One of Us Is Lying will lose themselves in the pages of this novelor maybe in the treacherous hallways of the school.

Includes interior illustrations from the author.