The Quarry Girls
Quotes from the Book
Jamie knew how to best help women: give them weapons instead of pacifiers.
The worst of humanity was overwhelming. Empathy was alarmingly finite, a fistful of jewels gleaming and traded and gone.
Wasn't this what siblings, even younger ones, were for? Someone else to see the monster in the closet. The blood on the bed.
The two years between them was nothing. They squabbled over the same dolls, competed for the same Oreos, memorized the same cartoon openings. Calla was his equal - why was she in charge, exactly? And the things they squabbled over, Christ, it could be a stick. Anything Calla had claimed, Dre took an interest in. Like she made things have value when she touched them.
Siblings knew all the weak spots, years passed circling each other, checking for vulnerability.
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About Neena Viel
About the book
For fans of Jordan Peele’s films, Stranger Things, and The Other Black Girl, Listen To Your Sister is a laugh-out-loud, deeply terrifying, and big-hearted speculative horror novel from electrifying debut talent Neena Viel.
Twenty-five year old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Calla is overwhelmed and tired of being the one who makes sacrifices to keep the family together. Jamie, full of good-natured sixteen-year-old recklessness, is usually off fighting for what matters to him or getting into mischief, often at the same time. Dre, their brother, promised he would help raise Jamie–but now the ink is dry on the paperwork and in classic middle-child fashion, he’s off doing his own thing. And through it all, The Nightmare never stops haunting Calla: recurring images of her brothers dying that she is powerless to stop.
When Jamie’s actions at a
Book details
- First published
- 2025
- Author
- Neena Viel
- Genre
- Horror
- Goodreads rating
- 3.13 (8k ratings)
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