The Scratch Daughters

“Sharp and exciting, always vivacious and sensory … All I want is more—more of these sweet vicious girls and their helplessly loving leader, changing themselves, one another and the world.” —Amal El-Mohtar in the New York Times Book Review“The Scratch Daughters is a sharp, scathing sophomore novel from H. A. Clarke. Middle books in trilogies often function more as table setting to the main event, but not this one. As much as I long for the next entry, if the series should end here at least it would go out on a high note.” —Tor.com“August Clarke’s witchy 2020 banger The Scapegracers is … sharp, it’s queer, it’s techy, it’s spiky, it’s magical … Sideways Pike is her own force to be reckoned with.” —LitHub, “October’s 8 Best SF and Fantasy Books” Praise for The Scapegracers series: ★ “Magic is palpable, urgent, and simply marvelous in this must-have debut.” —Kirkus★ “Unapologetically queer … and seething with raw emotion, this fantasy opens strong while leaving much to be explored in future installments.” —Publishers Weekly“Loner, lesbian teenage witch Sideways bubbles with nerves, insecurities, and longing in this action-packed debut from a young queer writer.” —Chana Porter, author of The Seep“This is the dark, twisty, witchy book I’ve always wanted. [Clarke’s] writing is brilliant and gorgeous and firework bright.” —Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians“Spooky and weird and dangerous, but addictive.” —Shveta Thakrar, author of Star Daughter

August Clarke is here and queer, etc. They have been published in PRISM international, Portland Review, and Eidolon. He was a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction and a Locus Award, Dragon Award, and Pushcart finalist. They researched queerness, labor, and monstrosity at the University of Chicago. Under the name H. A. Clarke, he is the author of The Scapegracers trilogy.

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