Hear Her Howl

This boldly feminist story highlights varied experiences and obstacles while resolutely asserting that every woman and girl deserves to thrive and feel free. A passionate rallying howl for indomitable girls.—Kirkus

DeRose’s fresh reframing of familiar werewolf mythology alongside artfully wrought characters buttresses charged messaging about religious dominion and patriarchal attitudes.—Publisher's Weekly

Kim DeRose’s books are an essential antidote to the unrelenting repression of teenage girls, and while we can’t give our daughters witchcraft and lycanthropy (more’s the pity), we can give them stories of girls claiming their power and their wildness in a world that wants to stifle them. Hear Her Howl is the sapphic, Catholic-school, werewolf power ballad you didn’t know you needed.—Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author

Full of 90s nostalgia yet heartbreakingly relevant, Hear Her Howl is the book I wish I'd had as a teen. It's also a timely reminder that it's never too late to find the wild within. Puts the grrr in grrrl power! —Mara Rutherford, author of A Multitude of Dreams

A uniquely feminist twist on the werewolf myth, Hear Her Howl will grip you from its opening lines to its explosive conclusion. Full of wry wit and rooted in a nostalgic 90s setting, this powerful story deftly examines Rue’s struggle to break free of her “good girl” conditioning and tackles the nuances of privilege alongside an empowering story of friendship and sapphic romance. 
 
Like the girls of Sacred Heart Academy, you will leave the pages of DeRose’s work transformed, ready to question the cages that confine your truest self and inspired to form a wild pack of your own.—Isabel Sterling, author of These Witches Don’t Burn

Juxtaposing wild and tame, sacred and profane, Hear Her Howl is charged with a ferocious desire for freedom, exploring the force of nature that is female friendship while empowering readers to discover the 'sacred holiness' of our authentic selves. If you've ever chafed at the confines of expectations foisted upon you by family, religion, or any other institution, this book is for you.—Madeline Claire Franklin, author of The Wilderness of Girls

Hear Her Howl is both a love song to teenage girls and a rousing cry to freedom for us all. Kim DeRose shines a compassionate but unflinching light on patriarchy, gender roles, and the cages we build around those we love—and ourselves—as a result. It’s a hard world, with trauma and ingrained programming repeating like a fractal across generations, but DeRose reminds us that our inner wolf is always there, always waiting for us. We need only claim her.—Shveta Thakrar, author of the Andre Norton Nebula Award finalist Star Daughter