Sin
Eater
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The
Handmaid’s Tale meets Alice in Wonderland in this gripping and imaginative
historical novel about a shunned orphan girl in 16th-century England who is
ensnared in a deadly royal plot and must turn her subjugation into her power.
The Sin
Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard
Sins of
our flesh become sins of Hers
Following
Her to the grave, unseen, unheard
The Sin
Eater Walks Among Us.
For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May
receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater—a shunned woman, brutally
marked, whose fate is to hear the final confessions of the dying, eat ritual
foods symbolizing their sins as a funeral rite, and thereby shoulder their
transgressions to grant their souls access to heaven.
Orphaned and friendless, apprenticed to an older Sin Eater
who cannot speak to her, May must make her way in a dangerous and cruel world
she barely understands. When a deer heart appears on the coffin of a royal
governess who did not confess to the dreadful sin it represents, the older Sin
Eater refuses to eat it. She is taken to prison, tortured, and killed. To
avenge her death, May must find out who placed the deer heart on the coffin and
why.
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