Trigger
ืืจืฅ 2022 ยท Simon and Schuster
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The Queenโs Gambit meets The Hunger Games in this harrowing young adult thriller about a teen girl whose abusive father teaches her the finer points of chess and hunting for his own sinister ends.
Didi tries her best to be a good girl, but itโs hard to keep track of her fatherโs rules. When she wins a chess tournament, heโs angry she didnโt win with a better move and makes her run laps around the house. When she runs laps the next day, she has to keep running until sheโs faster than the day before. When sheโs skilled enough to outshoot him with both a gun and bow and arrow, he grows furious when she wonโt then shoot a baby rabbit who crosses their path. And Didi canโt do anything to escape being threatened with the Hurt Stick when she misbehaves.
Heโs all she has, he reminds her. They have to be prepared. They have to be prepared to fight the rest of the world, when the world comes to an end. Heโs grooming her, to keep her safe. He loves Didi. He doesโhe says so! And so Didi runs harder; annihilates her opponents in chess; takes down a deer at a dead run. Heโs grooming her, after all, to be the bestโฆhe says so.
Didi tries her best to be a good girl, but itโs hard to keep track of her fatherโs rules. When she wins a chess tournament, heโs angry she didnโt win with a better move and makes her run laps around the house. When she runs laps the next day, she has to keep running until sheโs faster than the day before. When sheโs skilled enough to outshoot him with both a gun and bow and arrow, he grows furious when she wonโt then shoot a baby rabbit who crosses their path. And Didi canโt do anything to escape being threatened with the Hurt Stick when she misbehaves.
Heโs all she has, he reminds her. They have to be prepared. They have to be prepared to fight the rest of the world, when the world comes to an end. Heโs grooming her, to keep her safe. He loves Didi. He doesโhe says so! And so Didi runs harder; annihilates her opponents in chess; takes down a deer at a dead run. Heโs grooming her, after all, to be the bestโฆhe says so.
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N. Griffin is the author of The Whole Stupid Way We Are, for which she was named one of Publishers Weeklyโs Flying Start Authors of 2013, as well as Just Wreck It All, Smashie McPerter and The Mystery of Room 11, Smashie McPerter and the Mystery of the Missing Goop, and Trigger. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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