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The Sin Eater walks among us unseen unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave unseen unheard The Sin Eater Walks Among Us. For the crime of stealing bread fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater—a shunned woman brutally marked whose fate is to hear the final confessions of the dying eat ritual foodsThe Sin Eater walks among us unseen unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave unseen unheard The Sin Eater Walks Among Us. For the crime of stealing bread fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater—a shunned woman brutally marked whose fate is to hear the final confessions of the dying eat ritual foods symbolizing their sins as a funeral rite and thereby shoulder their transgressions to grant their souls access to heaven. Orphaned and friendless apprenticed to an older Sin Eater who cannot speak to her May must make her way in a dangerous and cruel world she barely understands. When a deer heart appears on the coffin of a royal governess who did not confess to the dreadful sin it represents the older Sin Eater refuses to eat it. She is taken to prison tortured and killed. To avenge her death May must find out who placed the deer heart on the coffin and why.The Handmaids Talemeets Alice in Wonderland in this gripping and imaginative historical novel about a shunned orphan girl in 16th-century England who is ensnared in a deadly royal plot and must turn her subjugation into her power.(less)