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* AssholeVictim: It's hard to feel sympathy for Rosebush when she gets the bones in her arm shattered by a metal bat.
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* EvilIsPetty: Rosebush. Early in the novel, prior to the breaches, she forces a child with Down syndrome to go into a dangerous abandoned mine shaft for her own amusement resulting in him becoming injured. Also, once she sleeps with [[spoiler: Peter Meecham]] during a breach, she makes it a point to brag to Lumen, his girlfriend.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Lumen breaking Rosebush Lincoln's arm with a metal bat during PE class after getting fed up with her catty behavior.
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* TheStinger: When Lumen finds out through Mr. Hunter that [[spoiler: the dead girl in the mine shaft at the quarry is the corpse of her mother.]]
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* TheStinger: TheReveal: When Lumen finds out through Mr. Hunter that [[spoiler: the dead girl in the mine shaft at the quarry is the corpse of her mother.]]
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* AerithAndBob: You have names like Marcus, Polly and Felicia next to names like Lumen, Rosebush, and Hondy.
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** The last names are guilty of this as well. You have surnames like Fowler, Hunter, and Lincoln...and then Steptoe, Ruggle and Pilt.
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Lumen Ann Fowler.
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* MissingMom: You find out relatively early on that Lumen's mother died when she was young, and she was raised by her father. [[spoiler: Subverted when she finds her mother's long dead, decomposed body.]]
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* DaddysGirl: Lumen, full stop, to the point to where she hides going breach from him because she had promised she never would as a little girl.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: No one really understands why the teenagers go breach on the nights of the full moon, but the townsfolk do their damndest to make sure no one ever finds out about it.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Blackhat Roy Ruggle.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Blackhat Roy Ruggle.]]]] Lumen doesn't stop him.
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* HighSchoolDance: Where the climax of the novel occurs.
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* HighSchoolDance: Where the climax of the novel occurs.
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* PromNight: Where the climax of the novel occurs.
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** Also, Roy Ruggle is exclusively referred to in the novel as Blackhat Roy.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Lumen gets a deep gash in her face at one point, resulting in stitches.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Lumen gets a deep gash in her face at one point, resulting in stitches.
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* InnocenceLost: Lumen starting her period for the first time serves as a metaphor for this.
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* InnocenceLost: Lumen starting her period for the first time after having violent sex [[spoiler: with Blackhat Roy]] serves as a metaphor for this.
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: A big concern of teenage Lumen's is the fact that she is, for all intents and purposes, amenorrheic. Averted when she [[spoiler: has violent sex with Blackhat Roy in his bedroom and discovers after that she had begun menstruating.]]
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: A big concern of teenage Lumen's is the fact that she is, for all intents and purposes, amenorrheic. Averted when she [[spoiler: has violent sex with Blackhat Roy in his bedroom amenorrheic, and discovers after that she had begun menstruating.]]is a key plot point to Lumen's character development.
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* DueToTheDead: When Lumen first discovers the corpse in the mine shaft, she begins speaking to it and stroking its hair. When she discovers it's [[spoiler: the body of her mother]] she flees the school dance to go to the mine shaft and pay her respects properly, introducing herself as [[spoiler: her daughter.]]
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* InnocenceLost: Lumen starting her period for the first time serves as a metaphor for this.
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* Yandere: Blackhat Roy has shades of this.
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* Yandere: {{Yandere}}: Blackhat Roy has shades of this.
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* TimeSkip: The story wavers between flashbacks to Lumen's childhood and teen years, and present-day housewife Lumen.
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* TimeSkip: The story wavers between flashbacks to Lumen's childhood and teen years, and present-day housewife Lumen.Lumen.
* Yandere: Blackhat Roy has shades of this.
* Yandere: Blackhat Roy has shades of this.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Lumen. Some chapters are just strange, unbridled ramblings about the meaning of her name. Also, she breaks into her husband's coworker's house at one point.
* PsychoticLoveTriangle: Peter Meecham, Lumen, and Blackhat Roy.
** Also Peter Meecham, Lumen, and Rosebush Lincoln.
** Also Peter Meecham, Lumen, and Rosebush Lincoln.
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* TheStinger: When Lumen finds out through Mr. Hunter that [[spoiler: the dead girl in the mine shaft at the quarry is the corpse of her mother.]]
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* TimeSkip: The story wavers between flashbacks to Lumen's childhood and teen years, and present-day housewife Lumen.
* TimeSkip: The story wavers between flashbacks to Lumen's childhood and teen years, and present-day housewife Lumen.
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* ItsAllMyFault: How Lumen feels about [[spoiler: her father's death]] on Prom Night.
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* ChekhovsGunman: The body of the dead girl in the mine shaft.
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!!!''When We Were Animals'' provides examples of the following tropes. Tropes, stark and yet riveting in their descriptions, summing up the parts and measures of words written beneath the light of the Long Night Moon, when the screams at the window are masked by the falling snow...
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* PurpleProse: THE WHOLE BOOK. This is how Lumen speaks.
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* BrokenBird: Lumen.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Blackhat Roy Ruggle.]]
* PurpleProse: THE WHOLE BOOK. This is how Lumenspeaks.speaks.
* TheStinger: When Lumen finds out through Mr. Hunter that [[spoiler: the dead girl in the mine shaft at the quarry is the corpse of her mother.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Blackhat Roy Ruggle.]]
* PurpleProse: THE WHOLE BOOK. This is how Lumen
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''When We Were Animals'' was nominated for the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award, and placed as Runner-Up for the 2016 ALA Reading List (Horror).
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''When We Were Animals'' was nominated for the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award, and placed as Runner-Up for the 2016 ALA Reading List (Horror).(Horror).
!!!''When We Were Animals'' provides examples of the following tropes. Tropes, stark and yet riveting in their descriptions, summing up the parts and measures of words written beneath the light of the Long Night Moon, when the screams at the window are masked by the falling snow...
*AerithAndBob: You have names like Marcus, Polly and Felicia next to names like Lumen, Rosebush, and Hondy.
*PurpleProse: THE WHOLE BOOK. This is how Lumen speaks.
!!!''When We Were Animals'' provides examples of the following tropes. Tropes, stark and yet riveting in their descriptions, summing up the parts and measures of words written beneath the light of the Long Night Moon, when the screams at the window are masked by the falling snow...
*AerithAndBob: You have names like Marcus, Polly and Felicia next to names like Lumen, Rosebush, and Hondy.
*PurpleProse: THE WHOLE BOOK. This is how Lumen speaks.
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[[caption-width-right:232:First edition cover, 2015]]
[[caption-width-right:232:First edition cover, 2015]]
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Described as a "gothic coming-of-age tale for modern times," ''When We Were Animals'' is a Horror/Young Adult novel written by Joshua Gaylord, published in 2015.
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Described as a "gothic coming-of-age tale for modern times," ''When We Were Animals'' is a Horror/Young Adult novel written by Joshua Gaylord, Gaylord (also known as Alden Bell), published in 2015.2015.
''When We Were Animals'' was nominated for the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award, and placed as Runner-Up for the 2016 ALA Reading List (Horror).
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When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she is surprised that she became a kind suburban wife, a devoted mother. In fact, she never thought she would escape her small and peculiar hometown. As a teenager she fell beneath the sway of her community's darkest, strangest secret. For one year, beginning at puberty, every resident "breaches" during the full moon. On these nights, adolescents run wild, destroying everything in their path. Lumen resists. Promising her father she will never breach, she investigates the mystery of her community's traditions and the stories erased from the town record. But the more we learn about the town's past, the more we realize that Lumen's memories harbor secrets of their own.
Described as a "gothic coming-of-age tale for modern times," ''When We Were Animals'' is a Horror/Young Adult novel written by Joshua Gaylord, published in 2015.
Described as a "gothic coming-of-age tale for modern times," ''When We Were Animals'' is a Horror/Young Adult novel written by Joshua Gaylord, published in 2015.
