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A Dark and Starless Forest Lesbian Acknowledging such powerful and elidedBy: Sarah Hollowell When her siblings start to go missing, a girl must confront the dark thing that lives in the forestand the growing darkness in herselfin this debut YA contemporary fantasy for fans of Wilder Girls. Derry and her eight siblings live in an isolated house by the lake, separated from the rest of the world by an eerie and menacing forest. Frank, the man who raised them after their families abandoned them, says its for their own good.