When We Were Feral

By Shasta Grant

Book Overview

Thirteen-year-old Maggie lives in a trailer on the edge of a rural New Hampshire town, where her brother barely speaks, her father works double shifts at the gun factory, and her mother disappeared without a trace. She finds comfort in the warmth of her best friend Sarah's seemingly perfect family-- until a classmate's mother goes missing, and the girls are drawn to Erin, the daughter left behind. Compelled by a need to understand what makes mothers vanish, Maggie convinces the others to search for answers in the woods and abandoned backroads. But a charged encounter with older boys shifts their path and challenges everything they thought they knew about themselves-- and each other. Set in the early 1990s, When We Were Feral is a haunting coming-of-age story about friendship, longing, and the dangerous terrain between girlhood and adulthood. In a world where mothers vanish and truths stay buried, the girls begin to realize the wilderness they fear most isn't outside-- it's within.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646037383
• ISBN13: 9781646037384
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Regal House Publishing, LLC
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"