![]() ![]() ![]() Nova Ren Suma, author of The Walls Around Us and. Camille DeAngelis is a wildly imaginative, welcome new voice in YA fiction. This is a coming-of-age journey with shocking revelations, disturbing passion, and deep truths about being a girl in this world. ![]() We see her fear and her worry, and we get that with Holland’s performance, though it’s brief in comparison to the time spent with Maren and her mother in the book. One look at Bones & All's startling first page, and there's no going back. We learn about her mother losing her job and her opportunities because Maren ate her boss’ son. Maren’s mother leaving her forces Maren to try to find her once more in Pennsylvania, and it is how she connects with Sully, an older, more experienced eater, and goes on her own journey to find her mother and get answers as to why she is an “eater.” All of it starts with her mother leaving, and we get to spend time with the stress that Maren had caused her. In the movie, it is Maren’s father (played by André Holland) who is raising her before her need to feed on human flesh becomes too much, and he forces his 18-year-old daughter to go out into the world on her own. In the novel, protagonist Maren’s mother is the one who raises her, and we get to spend a bit more time with them as we learn about Maren’s history as an eater, mixed with why Maren gets on a bus to try to find her mother again in the first place. ![]()
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