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Sunyi Dean

Biography

Sunyi Dean

Sunyi Dean is an autistic author of fantasy fiction. THE BOOK EATERS is her debut novel. Originally born in the States and raised in Hong Kong, she now lives in Yorkshire with her children. When not reading, running, falling over in yoga or rolling d20s, she sometimes escapes the city to wildswim in lonely dales.

Sunyi Dean

Books by Sunyi Dean

by Sunyi Dean - Fantasy, Fiction, Gothic, Horror

Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon --- like all other book eater women --- is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories. But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger --- not for books, but for human minds.