RALEIGH, N.C. - s4story -- Regal House Publishing announces its new publication When We Were Feral by Shasta Grant, an Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow, Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest winner, and recipient of writing residencies from Hedgebrook and The Kerouac Project. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, is the author of Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home, and is published in cream city review, Epiphany, wigleaf, and elsewhere.

About When We Were Feral
Thirteen-year-old Maggie lives in a trailer on the edge of a rural New Hampshire town, where her brother barely speaks, her father works double shifts, and her mother disappeared without a trace. She finds comfort in the warmth of her best friend Sarah's seemingly perfect family—until a classmate's mother goes missing, and the girls are drawn to Erin, the daughter left behind.
Compelled by a need to understand what makes mothers vanish, Maggie convinces the others to search for answers in the woods and abandoned backroads. But a charged encounter with older boys shifts their path and challenges everything they thought they knew about themselves—and each other.

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A haunting coming-of-age story about friendship, longing, and the dangerous terrain between girlhood and adulthood. In a world where mothers vanish and truths stay buried, the girls begin to realize the wilderness they fear most isn't outside—it's within.

Praise for When We Were Feral
"When We Were Feral is a searing, spellbinding coming-of-age saga. It's deeply moving and beautifully unsettling. Girlhood and friendship hold hands here, twisting fingertips that alternately caress and bruise. Through it all, the watery shape of the absent mother hovers over the novel, a haunting reflection rippling across the surface of a lake. Shasta Grant is a terrific writer. I tore through this book."
—Kristen Arnett, New York Times Bestselling author of Stop Me If You've Heard This One

"...a wildly astute story of thirteen-year-old girls, in a lakeside town in New England, who crash through their world with boldness, betrayals, and not much help. As we watch two motherless girls come into their own strategies of survival, the telling is both razor-sharp and sublimely wise. A rare and terrific novel."

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Publication Details
Paperback:   220 pages
ISBN: 9781646037384
US $19.95 / CAN $27.99
Epub/Mobipocket
ISBN: 9781646037391
US $9.99 / CAN $12.99

Available at bookstores, online retailers, and direct at the publisher's storefront (https://regalhousepublishing.com/).

Distribution:
Independent Publishers Group
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Chicago, IL 60610
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F: (312) 337-5985
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For review copies contact or other inquiries:
Regal House Publishing
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Raleigh, NC 27605, USA
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