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Author Event at Bear Pond Books: Ann Dávila Cardinal
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We are excited to celebrate Vermont author Ann Dávila Cardinal at Bear Pond Books! Many of you may know Ann, who works part-time at the store!
Join us on June 28th from 11am - 1pm for a signing event for her upcoming book, "You've Awoken Her".
About the Book:
Fans of You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight and Your Lonely Nights Are Over will love this thrilling YA horror about a string of disappearances and "accidental" drownings in the Hamptons, the changing relationship between two best friends, and their desperate attempt to not be the next victims of a Lovecraftian monster terrorizing the coastline.
All Gabi wants is to spend the summer in his room, surrounded by his Funkos and books, but with his mom traveling, his bags are packed for the last place he wants to visit—the Hamptons. Staying with his best friend should have him willing to peek out of his cave, but ever since Ruth’s nouveau riche family moved, their friendship has been off.
Surrounded by mansions, country clubs, and Ruth’s new boyfriend, Frost Thurston—the axis that Hampton society orbits around—it doesn’t take long for Gabi to feel completely out of place. But when he witnesses a woman being pulled under the ocean water, and no one—not the police or anyone else in the Hamptons—seems to care, Gabi starts to wonder if maybe the beachside town’s bad vibes are more real than he thought.
As the “accidental” deaths and drownings begin to climb, Gabi knows he’ll need proof to convince Ruth they’re all in danger. And while the Thurston family name keeps rising to the top, along with every fresh body, what’s worst is that all the signs point to something lurking beneath the water—something with tentacles and a thirst for blood. Can Gabi figure out how the two are intertwined and put an end to the string of deaths…before becoming the water’s next victim?
About the Author:
Ann is a Nuyorican, Vermont-based author with an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA). She comes from a long line of Puerto Rican writers, including father and son poets Virgilio and José Antonio Dávila, and her cousin, award-winning fiction writer Tere Dávila.
Ann’s first book was a young adult horror novel titled Five Midnights, released by Tor Teen in 2019. Five Midnights won the 2020 International Latino Book Award in the category of Best Young Adult Fantasy & Adventure, an AudioFile’s Earphones Award for the audiobook, and was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. The story continues in Category Five released in 2020. Category Five was a 2021 finalist for the same International Latino Book Award category. And her young adult horror rom-com, Breakup From Hell, was released by HarperCollins in January 2023. Her next YA novel, a horror comedy titled You’ve Awoken Her, will be coming on June 17, 2025.
Ann’s middle grade debut, Hispanic Star: Bad Bunny, was cowritten with activist Claudia Romo Edelman, and was released September 3, 2024 from Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan.
Her first adult novel, the Puerto Rican magical realist mystery The Storyteller’s Death, was released from Sourcebooks Landmark on October 4, 2022, and won the 2023 International Latino Book Award in the category of Popular Fiction. Her second adult novel, We Need No Wings, came out September 10, 2024.
Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology from HarperCollins, Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic from Polis Books and the Latine young adult collection Our Shadows Have Claws from Workman Publishing.
Ann lives in Vermont with her husband in a lovely little house with a massively creepy basement.
