Congratulations to Yvonne Battle-Felton, whose book CURDLE CREEK has won the 2024 Shirley Jackson Award in the novel category!
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“The debt to Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ is obvious, but Battle-Felton is drawing from a deeper well of influences, including Toni Morrison’s lyricism, the time-travel elements of Octavia E. Butler’s KINDRED and the alternative universe of Colson Whitehead’s THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD… Battle-Felton imagines this world exceedingly well. And she never loses sight of the novel’s central theme: how the need for communities to protect themselves unleashes its own anxieties and traumas… Sharp speculative fiction, casting a skeptical eye on insular communities of all sorts.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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