The Florida Project

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at Wellwood House in the summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified, and alone. Under the watchful eye of Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose and Zinnia and Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely 14.

Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid...and it’s usually paid in blood.

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"There's spells, there's witches, and then there's the magic Grady Hendrix conjures up in this amazing novel." – Stephen Graham Jones

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