Wax

Hardcover | 2 August 2016

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Paraffin, Vermont, is home to the Grosholtz Candle Factory. There, seventeen-year-old Poppy finds something dark and unsettling: a room filled with dozens of startlingly lifelike wax sculptures. Later, she’s shocked when one of the figures—a teenage boy who doesn’t seem to know what he is—jumps naked and screaming out of the trunk of her car. Poppy wants to return him to the factory, but before she can, a fire destroys the mysterious workshop.
With the help of the wax boy, who answers to the name Dud, Poppy tries to find out who was behind the fire. Along the way, she discovers that some of the townspeople are starting to look a little . . . waxy. Can they extinguish the evil plot?

Industry Reviews

"[Wax] is a smart satire on consumer culture, shades of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in a Grosholtz Candle Edition. The characters and relationships are quite compelling and realistic, despite that fact that some of them are literally made of wax." --VOYA "With witty characters, a campy premise, and a creepy setting, this exciting, entertaining horror-mystery will appeal to readers who like their comedy on the dark side." --Booklist "Poppy's bone-dry sense of humor provides laughs throughout this creepy tale of body-snatchers ("Dud wasn't capable of understanding the concept of nipples, much less love"), but the real strength of the story lies in Damico's wholehearted commitment to her bizarre plot and its outlandish twists." --Publishers Weekly "Damico writes a hybrid comedy-horror romp that can keep readers turning pages." --Kirkus --

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