Eat the Ones You Love
by Sarah Maria Griffin

A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh — it’s GIVING Little Shop of Horrors!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• In a modern nod to the competition between humanity and the environment, this riveting and unusual coming-of-age novel follows Shelly, a young girl hired to do Instagram for a thriving plant store at a dying shopping mall, and while falling in love with the enigmatic owner, also falls under the spell of the dangerous secret to the shop’s success: a sentient flower, set to take over the world.
• Little Shop of Horrors meets The Last of Us! This queer, found-family-filled novel is strongly informed by the natural world and the trade-off of tenderness and violence in modern life-a perfect reading companion for plantmoms, plantdads, and of course, #girldinner.
• Griffin is a well-connected Irish author whose background aligns her to the prize-darling-to-bestseller superstar Sally Rooney. We have a huge audience opportunity with this author (whose biggest fans include major podcasters, journalists, internet personalities, and our own V.E. Schwab).