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MORMAMA is a riveting supernatural, southern gothic tale from Kit Reed, the author of Where. *2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST HORROR**Locus 2017 Recommended Reading List*One of io9's 20 Amazing New Scifi and Fantasy Books for MayKirkus' the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Reads for May Dell Duval has been living on the street since his accident. He can't remember who he was or where he came from. All he has is a tattered note in his pocket with an address for the Ellis house, a sprawling, ancient residence in Jacksonville. He doesn't know why he's been sent here.In the house, Lane and her son Theo have returned to the ancient family home -- their last resort. The old house is ruled by an equally ancient trio of tyrannical aunts, who want to preserve everything. Nothing should ever leave the house, including Lane.Something about the house isn't right. Things happen to the men and boys living there. There are forces at work one of which visits Theo each night -- Mormama, one mama too many.
About the Author
Kit Reed woke up one morning with an amazing pitch line for her mysterious new novel WHERE. "Everybody on Kraven Island is gone. Even they don't know where." This from a self-proclaimed "trans-genred" writer, translation: "I don't belong anywhere." Her work covers the waterfront-- comic novels, SF, psychothrillers, psychological, i.e. character-driven fiction, you name it. She's been there.
WHERE follows two distinguished 2013 publications, THE STORY UNTIL NOW, a Shirley Jackson award nominee from the Wesleyan University Press, and her novel SON OF DESTRUCTION, from Severn House, titles praised in Financial Times, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal and in the New York Times Book Review, Chelsea Cain writes, "Reed finds humanity in the most fantastic places. She does it without pretension. And she does it with a sense of humor and no apologies. In my Museum of American Writers, I'd have a statue of Kit Reed in the lobby..."
In Vanity Fair, Elissa Schappell wrote: "The Story Until Now unleashes new and classic stories fired by a radiant imagination."
And Reed? She writes: "Success is when you're still standing up at the end."
Her collection What Wolves Know from PS Publishing UK was also a Shirley Jackson Award nominee. Called "a gripping dystopian thriller" in a starred review in Publishers Weekly, Reed's novels, Enclave, The Baby Merchant and Thinner Than Thou, a winner of the A.L.A. Alex Award, and her collection, Dogs of Truth, are available in trade paperback and on Kindle and other online platforms. The New York Times Book Review has this to say about her work: "Most of these stories shine with the incisive edginess of brilliant cartoons... they are less fantastic than visionary." Other novels include @?expectations, Captain Grownup, Fort Privilege, Catholic Girls, J. Eden and Little Sisters of the Apocalypse. She's had stories in, among others, The Yale Review, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Omni and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature. Her books Weird Women, Wired Women and Little Sisters of the Apocalypse were finalists for the Tiptree Prize.
A member of the board of the Authors League Fund and a longtime member of the National Book critics Circle and PEN, she serves as Resident Writer at Wesleyan University.
http://www.kitreed.net
