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In this darkly funny, striking debut, a highly unusual young woman must fight a curse that has plagued the women in her family for millennia . . . 

An utterly original novel will all the mesmerizing power of Tea Obreht's The Tiger's Wife, Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child, and Karen Russell's Swamplandia!, What Should Be Wild is a hypnotizing modern fairy tale that pulsates with originality, curiosity, terrror, and pleasure. 

“Delightful and darkly magical.  Julia Fine has written a beautiful modern myth, a coming-of-age story for a girl with a worrisome power over life and death.” -- Audrey Niffenegger, bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry