The B&n Ya Podcast

Rory Power’s debut novel, Wilder Girls, is a dark, razor-sharp thriller set in an island boarding school beset by a gruesome plague. With elements of body horror, slow-burn love story, and dystopian, it’s the August pick for the B&N YA Book Club. Melissa Albert talked to Power about messy emotions, inventing a plague, and what led up to writing her first book.