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We Can Never Leave This Place

by Eric Larocca

A dark fantasy shaped by grief and family trauma

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A dark fantasy shaped by grief and family trauma

After her father’s violent death, young Mara faces a changed household when her mother brings in a new guest, saying he will protect them from the devastation outside. That premise leads into a dark fantasy odyssey rooted in family loss and inherited grief. The book’s horror elements and starkly fantastical setup place its focus on the effects of trauma within a family, while the guest’s promised protection adds a threat of uncertainty to the home at the story’s center.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adult readers interested in horror and dark fantasy.
  • Those seeking fiction centered on family trauma, grief, and loss.

Themes

Inherited griefFamilial traumaProtection and threatLoss

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Book overview

"When you're given a gift, something else gets taken away."

 

A precocious young girl with an unusual imagination is sent on an odyssey into the depths of depravity. After her father dies violently, young Mara is surprised to find her mother welcoming a new guest into their home, claiming that he will protect them from the world of devastation and destruction outside their door.

 

A grotesque and thrilling dark fantasy, We Can Never Leave This Place is a harrowing portrait of inherited grief and familial trauma.

 

"We Can Never Leave This Place is the apocalyptic 21st century Grimm's fairy tale you need in your life. Eric LaRocca plucks images directly from the muck and mire of our id and fashions them into something grotesquely beautiful." Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club

 

"We Can Never Leave This Place is a bleak and tender, monstrous and visceral fable of family and loss, and the courage it takes to confront them both." Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher

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