Celeste Morton really wants to grow up. Like all girls, she was born with many moles, freckles, and birthmarks that can determine her future and the future of her loved ones—because with maturity, new predictions will appear and strengthen the prophecy. But along with expectation comes fear: during the “transformation” period, girls become irresistible to men.
Celeste’s brother, Miles, is also looking forward to his sister’s coming of age. A talented reader of the future—something not typical for men—he plans to practice on his sister in order to read his own fate.
When Celeste changes, Miles’s secret is revealed—a secret that could destroy him, destroy the family, destroy everything…
What will they be willing to do to create a truly their own future?
“Constellations of the Body” is a bold, anxious, and touching story about women’s fate in a world so much like ours—yet in Laura Mae Linn Walter’s novel every girl has unique traits: you can read the future from the patterns of their birthmarks. Walter wrote an incredibly beautiful story about modern problems: how to be a woman in a world of aggressive men and stop feeling like a victim.