Download or read book The Realm of Secondhand Souls written by Sandra Shea and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel on family dynamics set in the mythical town of Nile Bay. The heroine is Novena, an orphaned girl who is adopted by her aunt, who already has four boys. They include Zan, a torturer of frogs and other helpless creatures, who cannot forgive Novena for usurping his place as the baby of the family. One day he runs away. A first novel.