num_pages: 288
description: The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father and from their San Antonio neighborhood full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school Ana the oldest sister falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later her three younger sisters Jessica Iridian and Rosa are still consumed by grief and haunted by their sisters memory. Their dream of leaving Southtown now seems out of reach. But then strange things start happening around the house: mysterious laughter mysterious shadows mysterious writing on the walls. The sisters begin to wonder if Ana really is haunting them trying to send them a messageand what exactly shes trying to say. In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Awardlonglisted novel All the Wind in the World Samantha Mabry weaves an aching magical novel that is one part family drama one part ghost story and one part love story. 
language: English
title: Tigers, Not Daughters
publisher: Algonquin Young Readers