The Book Eaters

The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean, launches August 9th. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book’s content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. However, one of the book eaters bears a child born with a hunger for human minds rather than for books...