Listen to Your Sister

DEBUT Calla, 25, is the big sister to Dre, 23, and Jamie, 16. The family has lived through significant trauma, and Calla, its clearly unprepared and overwhelmed makeshift matriarch, is trying her best. Plagued by a vivid, horrific, and frequent nightmare, Calla is near her wit’s end, and the family bonds seem like they might finally break. When the siblings are separately trapped in Calla’s nightmare, they fight for their lives to bring the family back together. Readers will fall easily into this compelling story of sympathetic but flawed characters, told in chapters from each sibling’s perspective. The dread steadily intensifies, until the terrors burst it open in the book’s first third. After that point, there is no looking back. Unique and compelling, Viel’s impressive debut turns real and relatable trauma into a terrifying and immerse supernatural horror story that is clearly underpinned with love.