02157cam a2200313 i 4500 426200131 TxAuBib 20200526120000.0 191118s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982124106 1982124105 TxAuBib rda Campisi, Megan, 1976- Sin eater [book] / Megan Campisi. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2020. 284 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In Elizabeth I's England, a fourteen-year-old girl who steals a loaf of bread is sentenced to be a sin eater, a shunned woman who must assume the sins of the dead, and becomes drawn into a dangerous mystery at the heart of a corrupt and violent court. '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 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." -- Provided by publisher. 20200526. 1558-1603. Forgiveness of sin Fiction. Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603 Fiction. Fiction. History. Historical fiction.