Such a Pretty Smile

Two timelines, one hungry darkness. In 2004, artist Caroline Sawyer begins to hear dogs no one else can hear — snarling, teeth snapping — and pours the visions into violent sculptures she makes as if in a trance, until everyone around her decides she is losing her mind. Fifteen years later, her teenage daughter Lila feels a delicious, terrifying force waking inside her, one that offers her a voice and then punishes her for using it — the same force that once stalked her mother. As girls who refuse to stay quiet turn up dead at the hands of something called the Cur, mother and daughter must trace the horror to its root. A feral, feminist horror novel about rage, control, and being a girl who won't behave.