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Gr 9 Up—For Marsden, coming of age has meant finding a way to get her and her younger sister, Wynn, out of the town of Glory, by any means necessary. Wages stored up from her job in the kitchen of the brothel where her mother works as a prostitute are supplemented by skimming: taking money from the bodies, largely suicide victims, that appear in her family's darkly wooded land known as "the covert" to the rest of the town. Marsden knows that in time, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More