# Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix - Hardcover

by **Cherie Dimaline** (Author)

**In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This queer YA reimagining of _The Secret Garden_ subverts the cishet and white status quo of the original in a tale of family secrets wonderful and horrifying.  
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Mary Lennox didn't think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she's never met.

At first the impassive, calculating girl believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto: cold, isolating, and anything but cheerful, where staff is treated as staff and _never_ like family. But as she slowly allows her heart to open like the first blooms of spring, Mary comes to find that this strange place and its strange people--most of whom are Indigenous--may be what she can finally call home.

Then one night Mary discovers Olive, her cousin who has been hidden away in an attic room for years due to a "nervous condition." The girls become fast friends, and Mary wonders why this big-hearted girl is being kept out of sight and fed medicine that only makes her feel sicker. When Olive's domineering stepmother returns to the manor, it soon becomes clear that something sinister is going on.

With the help of a charming, intoxicatingly vivacious Metis girl named Sophie, Mary begins digging further into family secrets both wonderful and horrifying to figure out how to free Olive. And some of the answers may lie within the walls of a hidden, overgrown and long-forgotten garden the girls stumble upon while wandering the wilds...

**The Remixed Classics Series**  
_A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix_ by C.B. Lee  
_So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix_ by Bethany C. Morrow  
_Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix_ by Aminah Mae Safi  
_What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix_ by Tasha Suri  
_Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix_ by Anna-Marie McLemore  
_My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix_ by Kalynn Bayron  
_Teach the Torches to Burn: A Romeo & Juliet Remix_ by Caleb Roehrig  
_Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix_ by Cherie Dimaline  
_Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix_ by Gabe Cole Novoa

### Author Biography

**Cherie Dimaline**'s 2017 book, _The Marrow Thieves_, won the Governor General's Award and the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Young Readers, was a finalist for the White Pine Award, and was the fan favorite for CBC's 2018 Canada Reads. Her novel _Empire of Wild_ (Random House Canada, William Morrow US, Weiden and Nicolson UK) became an instant Canadian bestseller and was named Indigo's #1 Best Book of 2019. Cherie spent many years working in and for Indigenous communities and now lives in her home territory where she is a registered and active member of the Georgian Bay Metis Community.

**Number of Pages:** 288

**Dimensions:** 0.99 x 8.5 x 5.82 IN

**Publication Date:** September 05, 2023

## Details

- **Price:** 19.99 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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