American Horror Story meets the dark comedy of Kafkaโs The Metamorphosis as Cat searches for a way to escape her high school. A tale of family, love, tragedy, and masksโthe ones others make for us, and the ones we make for ourselves. Katzenjammer will haunt fans of Chelsea Pitcherโs This Lie Will Kill You and E. Lockhartโs We Were Liars.
Cat lives in her high school. She never leaves, and for a long time her school has provided her with everything she needs. But now things are changing. The hallways contract and expand along with the schoolโs breathing, and the showers in the bathroom run a bloody red. Catโs best friend is slowly turning into cardboard, and instead of a face, Cat has a cat mask made of her own hardened flesh.
Cat doesnโt remember why she is trapped in her school or why half of themโCat includedโare slowly transforming. Escaping has always been the one impossibility in her schoolโs upside-down world. But to save herself from the eventual self-destruction all the students face, Cat must find the way out. And to do that, sheโll have to remember what put her there in the first place.
Using chapters alternating between the past and the present, acclaimed author Francesca Zappia weaves a spine-tingling, suspenseful, and haunting story about tragedy and the power of memories. Fans of Marieke Nijkampโs This Is Where It Ends and Karen McManusโs One of Us Is Lying will lose themselves in this novelโor maybe in the treacherous hallways of the school.ย
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Francesca Zappia lives in central Indiana. When she is not writing, sheโs drawing her characters, reading, or playing video games. She is also the author of Made You Up and Eliza Mirkโs favorite, The Children of Hypnos, a biweekly serial novel posted on Tumblr and Wattpad. She also blogs about writing at francescazappia.com