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The Laws of the Skies - cover

The Laws of the Skies

Gregoire Courtois

Translator Rhonda Mullins

Publisher: Coach House Books

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Summary

Winnie-the-Pooh meets The Blair Witch Project in this very grown-up tale of a camping trip gone horribly awry.
 
Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None of them make it out alive. The Laws of the Skies tells the harrowing story of those days in the woods, of illness and accidents, and a murderous child.
 
Part fairy tale, part horror film, this macabre fable takes us through the minds of all the members of this doomed party, murderers and murdered alike.
 
“Excellent...crystalline." —New York Times, Summer Reads
Available since: 05/07/2019.
Print length: 152 pages.

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