The Deep Dark
The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag, published by Scholastic Incorporated in 2024, is a young adult fiction that explores themes of identity, family, and love through a blend of fantasy elements. This edition spans 470 pages and is presented in English. The story follows Magdalena Herrera, a high school senior grappling with the weight of her responsibilities, including caring for her ailing grandmother and navigating a complicated romantic life. As she harbors a dangerous secret that threatens her well-being, Mags finds herself increasingly isolated in her small desert community.
Readers will encounter a narrative that delves into the complexities of Mags’s life as she balances her personal struggles with the return of her childhood friend Nessa, who brings both memories and her own secrets. The story unfolds against a backdrop of magic and emotional turmoil, prompting Mags to confront her hidden truths. As the darkness encroaches, she faces a pivotal choice between revealing her secret and risking everything or remaining in solitude. The Deep Dark offers a rich exploration of multigenerational relationships and the challenges of young adulthood within a fantastical context.
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From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator of the New York Times and ABA Indie bestselling The Witch Boy trilogy and The Girl from the Sea, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, love, loss, and magic.
Everyone has secrets. Mags’s has teeth.
Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious responsibilities: caring for her ailing grandmother; working a part-time job; clandestine makeouts with a girl who has a boyfriend. And then there’s her secret, which pulls her into the basement each night, drains her of energy, and leaves her bleeding. A secret that could hurt and even kill if it ever got out — like it did once before.
So Mags keeps her head down, isolated in her small desert community. That is, until her childhood friend Nessa comes back to town, bringing vivid memories of the past, an intoxicating glimpse of the future, and a secret of her own. Mags won’t get attached, of course. She’s always been strong enough to survive without anyone’s help.
But when the darkness starts to close in on them both, Mags will have to drag her secret into the daylight, and choose between risking everything… or having nothing left to lose.
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