Curdle Creek
From the Women's Prize-longlisted author of Remembered
$32.08
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2024
Summary
Welcome to Curdle Creek. We’re dying to make you feel at home.
Osira, a forty-five-year-old widow, is an obedient follower of the strict conventions of Curdle Creek, an all-Black town in rural America governed by a tradition of ominous rituals designed to keep the residents safe.
Curdle Creek has one particularly strict policy: one in, one out.
And one day, it is Osira’s turn.
Forced into the great unknown. The sinister reality of her birthplace unravels around…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349703541 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 034970354X |
| Author: | Yvonne Battle-Felton |
| Publisher: | Dialogue |
| Imprint: | Dialogue Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 152mm x 22mm |
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A gorgeously written, surrealist folktale that goes bone deep. Compelling, thought-provoking, thrilling, haunting, Yvonne Battle-Felton’s Curdle Creek is simply a marvel. – Paul Tremblay, author of THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD and HORROR MOVIE Curdle Creek is a thoughtful, sinister tour-de-force. Yvonne Battle-Felton writes so convincingly that the reader is forced to ponder what unthinkable choices we mask behind our own quest for belonging, and what wrongs we must answer for.
– Tananarive Due, L.A. Times Book Prize-winning author of THE REFORMATORY Tautly written, utterly gripping, Yvonne Battle-Felton’s novel invites the reader into a world of mystery and mythology. Ultimately, Curdle Creek is about perseverance and hope, about remembering the past while boldly embracing the future and about posing the eternal question: how and where can a Black person simply be? – Carolyn Ferrell, author of DEAR MISS METROPOLITAN
About The Author
Yvonne Battle-Felton
Yvonne Battle-Felton was born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. She holds an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She is a Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. A writer of fiction and creative non-fiction, Yvonne’s work has been published in riverSedge, Assisi, Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place, Welter, Slices, and The Chesapeake Reader Literary Journal. Yvonne was a recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award in 2017 for Remembered.
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