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By Mathilda Zeller
Hardcover edition
Publisher Macmillan Imprint Tor Nightfire ISBN9781250402035
It Looks Like You in the Dark
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The only people who know are the people who have gone. Those people no longer have throats to tell us.
Tapeesa is newly out of high school and working in a fish processing plant in the Inupiat village, Chukchi, where she’s lived her whole life. Maybe that’s why people tend to assume she isn’t that bright—or maybe her mama is right and she does have bad blood. Either way, she knows the legend, and she knows the history. Her Ahna told her that the hungry creature—the kushtuka—appears to us in the form of someone we love. It will try to get us to follow it. Follow it where? Those who have gone no longer have throats to tell us.
The Kobuk River Valley of remote Alaska draws greedy white men time and time again. But whenever they come, death comes too. This time the white men are here for the long term, to create a rare earths mine just north of the village. When her sister Esther goes missing, Tapeesa will do anything to get her back. Seeking justice, Tapeesa must track down the kidnapper in the darkening Arctic. What awaits beyond the warmth of her village is more horrible than she could imagine and closer to her than she knows.
IT LOOKS LIKE YOU IN THE DARK is a fast-paced, grab-you-by-the-throat story about love, loyalty, and all the fearsome monsters that emerge when we turn our backs on the land and each other.
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AR Ready
No
Canadian Rights
Yes
Title alpha
It Looks Like You in the Dark
Category
Adult Genre Fiction for Teens Plus
Pages Count
288
Trim Size
8 1/2" x 5 1/2"
JLG Span
Winter
Language
English
Rights type
Publication date
2026-10-12
Minimum grade
11
Maximum grade
12
Reading level
High
Format
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Adult Genre Fiction for Teens Plus
Adult Genre Fiction for Teens Plus
Adult Genre Fiction for Teens Plus
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