Welcome to our April 2024 Book Club selection: ​Wolfwood by ​Marianna Baer. We will discuss it on our April Book Club Chat on Tuesday, April 30th, at 8 pm EST. ⁠ The chats will run for about 60 minutes and be hosted by Regina Garay and Cindy Howard.

INFO ON THE BOOK SELECTION Indigo and her mother, once-famous artist Zoe Serra, have barely been scraping by since her mom's breakdown. When a gallery offers Zoe a revival show for her unfinished blockbuster series, Wolfwood, Indigo knows it's a crucial chance to finally regain stability. Zoe, however, mysteriously refuses. Desperate not to lose the opportunity, Indigo secretly takes up the brush herself. It turns out, there might be a very good reason her mother wants nothing to do with Wolfwood. Painting submerges Indigo into Wolfwood itself—a dangerous jungle where an army of grotesque, monstrous flora are in a violent battle with a band of girls. As Indigo enters Wolfwood again and again, the line between fantasy and reality blurs. It's a tenuous balancing act: keeping her forgery secret and her mind lucid, all while fighting her attraction to Kai, the son of the gallery owner. And by the time Indigo realizes the true nature of the monsters she's up against, it might be too late—and the monsters might just win.

INFO ON THE AUTHOR Marianna ​Baer received her MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from VCFA. After editing a long roster of YA and adult books as a freelance editor for various publishers, she became a developmental editor at Dovetail Fiction, the YA arm of book packaging company Working Partners. Marianna Baer is now the author of three YA novels, including Wolfwood. She lives in Brooklyn.