Hear Her Howl
$33.59
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2026
Summary
Hear Her Howl: A Sapphic Werewolf Awakening
As fiercely feminist as it is hopeful, this speculative, sapphic YA romance is simultaneously a modern-day war cry and a PSA that there is a wolf who slumbers inside us all-we only have to wake her.
Rue’s life is over. After she’s caught kissing a girl behind the Sunday School classrooms, she gets exiled to Sacred Heart so she can be transformed into her mother’s idea of a respectable lady. The irony of being sent …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781454960645 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1454960647 |
| Author: | Kim DeRose |
| Publisher: | Union Square & Co. |
| Imprint: | Union Square & Co. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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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 GirlsFull 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 DreamsA 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
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 authorAbout The Author
Kim DeRose
Kim DeRose is the author of For Girls Who Walk through Fire, which received a starred review from School Library Journal, praise from Kirkus Reviews and Booklist, and was selected for ALA’s 2025 Rise: A Feminist Book Project.
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