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From the author of the acclaimed Blood Water Paint, a new contemporary YA novel in prose and verse about a girl struggling with guilt and a desire for revenge. Em Morales’s older sister was raped by another student after a frat party. A jury finds the rapist guilty on all counts but the victory is short-lived. Justice vanishes as the judge turns the Morales family’s world upside down by sentencing the rapist to no prison time. We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire is a searing portrait of a young woman torn between a persistent desire for revenge and a burning need for hope.