{"product_id":"the-sleeping-sisters","title":"The Sleeping Sisters","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"The sun-drenched brutality of Jennifer Givhan's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e burns right through its readers' retinas, blinding in its savage humanity and voracious heartache. This haunting elegy to twice told tales--and our mothers who tell them--is absolutely volcanic, ready to erupt on your bookshelf if you don't read it straight away.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eClay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A chilling exploration of motherhood, murder, grief, and deep secrets, this book further solidifies Jennifer Givhan's place amongst contemporary literary greats. Simply put: \n\u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of Southwestern Gothic fiction.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePedro Iniguez, author of Fever Dreams of a Parasite\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is cataclysmic. Givhan's thunderous voice will break you open and etch itself into your bones. This book is an enthralling and ferocious page-turner with lyrical prose that interweaves gripping tension with the visceral ache of motherhood.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRios de la Luz, author of Itzá\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Givhan\u003c\/b\u003e is a Mexican American and Indigenous poet and novelist from the Southwestern desert and the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN\/Rosenthal Emerging Voices. She holds a Master's degree from California State University Fullerton and a master's in Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College. Givhan is the author of five full-length poetry collections and the novels \u003ci\u003eRiver Woman, River Demon, Jubilee, Trinity Sight, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Salt Bones. \u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her family. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSalt Bones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A triumph. One of the most masterful marriages of horror, mystery, thriller, and literary writing.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eA mystery spiked with horror, magical realism, and stunning prose, this book cast a spell on me.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e -- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAna Reyes, author of The House in the Pines\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Givhan mesmerizes. . . . Weaving folklore, mystery, and horror into a breathtaking tapestry. It's a stunning examination of generational trauma.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Givhan perfectly balances the supernatural with human themes of grief and love. A timely novel that deals with the treatment of Latina women. For fans of character-driven suspense and the magical realism of Isabel Allende, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Victor LaValle.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Jennifer Givhan's lyricism and rich storytelling immediately snatch you into this irresistible world of secrets, grief, and horror.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTananarive Due, author of The Reformatory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003ci\u003eHouse of Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e meets \n\u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e in this marvelously strange story of murder and motherhood; a gloriously surreal novel in which magical realism meets police procedural. Jenn Givhan twists your brain and leaves you looking at the world differently for a long time afterward. I have no idea how to describe what I just read, but it was really, really cool.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eT. Kingfisher, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of What Moves the Dead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Jennifer Givhan's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is as brutal as it is beautiful. When teenage girls are found decapitated in Albuquerque, one mother begins to fear the violence haunting her community may be rooted in her own bloodline. What unfolds is part crime novel, part fever dream, part reckoning with inherited trauma and religious hypocrisy. Givhan writes with a raw, lyrical intensity most writers spend a lifetime trying to unlock, turning myth and memory into something sharp, unsettling, and, at times, devastating. This is a bold, haunting novel about generational violence and the women who refuse to stay buried.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarter Wilson, USA Today bestselling author of Tell Me What You Did\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Jennifer Givhan brings a poet's ear for language to a propulsive mystery-thriller, and the combination is remarkable. In \n\u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e, she fuses lyrical horror with genuine narrative drive, delivering unexpected twists while maintaining control of her prose. Drawing on the unresolved West Mesa murders and the myth of the headless woman, the novel is grounded in Albuquerque with intelligence, specificity, and deep respect for place. A brilliant book by a writer who understands both language and plot.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlisa Valdes, author of Hollow Beasts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is a hypnotic work of feminist literary horror. Dark and soulful, this novel has its own unique brand of electrical charge, kaleidoscopic in scope and singular in its voice. A thrilling and heartbreaking ride from the first page, Givhan lyrically draws us into the emotional wounds, obsessions, grief, guilt, and trauma of complex characters living in the Southwest. Givhan is a fierce talent, a master storyteller who writes with a pristineness that makes this novel unforgettable. \u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is as feral as it is hypnotic.\" \u003c\/p\u003e-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNina McConigley, author of How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A gorgeously written mystery that kept me up at night and left me thinking of its characters in the days to come. It's everything I love in a novel -- a wily mystery, blood-stirring Indigenous folklore, and complicated ties to land and family. I devoured this novel; I was swept along pages brimming with suspense, where no one is who they seem. \n\u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e has a permanent space on my bookshelf!\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaurie L. Dove, author of Mask of the Deer Woman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A haunting mystery and a fierce ode to motherhood, written indelibly in sandstone and basalt. It will lodge in your heart like a cactus spine.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNat Cassidy, author of When the Wolf Comes Home and Mary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A folkloric masterpiece. Givhan winds a story as supple and horrifying as a bloody silk ribbon, and the result is electrifying. Part ode to the monstrosity of matrescence and part invective against injustice, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is a story from which I could not look away. I loved every page.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTaylor Grothe, author of Lethal Kiss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A scary story told over campfires is taken to new heights in \n\u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Sisters, \u003c\/i\u003epart horror, part mystery with stunning prose that will linger long after the last page is turned. With compassion and care, Jennifer Givhan expertly weaves Chicana and Indigenous folklore with real crimes and ignored issues -- an absolute must-read.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVanessa Lillie, bestselling author of Blood Sisters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A twisty, of-the-moment supernatural thriller, equal parts magical realism and police procedural. Givhan writes with a vibrancy and absolute surety.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeith Rosson, author of Coffin Moon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Simultaneously lyrical, propulsive, and brimming with heart, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e gifts us with prose so sharp that it cuts to the bone. Folklore is alive in these pages, following richly drawn characters through the blood that connects them. In sharing these stories, these voices, Givhan works her roots on us--and I gladly succumbed to her spell.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarson Faust, author of If the Dead Belong Here\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A powerful, absorbing novel. I devoured it, unable to look away from its horrors. Most importantly, I didn't want to. An astonishing work of reclamation and remembrance for the women and girls who haunt, and for the ones who refuse to let them down.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalia Theodoridou, author of Sour Cherry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA threatened mother and a relentless detective collide when a series of murders awaken something long buried in the New Mexican desert in this mesmerizing novel of literary horror, perfect for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Stephen Graham Jones. \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"A marvelously strange story of murder and motherhood. . . . I have no idea how to describe what I just read, but it was really, really cool.\" --T. Kingfisher, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Moves the Dead \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA mother's love is the oldest curse \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fortuna Miércoles has finally moved her family to a better neighborhood across the Rio Grande, desperate to outrun the curse that's stalked her bloodline since her greatest grandmother crossed the desert with a cactus thorn splitting her throat. But burying a family's violent legacy--or her own haunting secret--isn't so easy. Twenty years ago, girls and women vanished into the Albuquerque night, their bones later unearthed on the mesa. The so-called Reaper was never caught. Now, beneath the dormant volcanoes called the Sleeping Sisters, the killings have begun again, and they've called forth something in Fortuna that she has long fought to keep buried... \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Detective Jeanette Palacio has spent decades promising justice to the ghosts of her murdered cousins--alongside the memory of the other women she couldn't avenge. When a new body turns up in Fortuna's backyard, both women are pulled into a dangerous, ancient plot. Are the Sleeping Sisters awakening--or has someone in Fortuna's family set a trap? \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Inspired by true events, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e begins as a taut mystery shot through with myth and a Chicana-Indigenous reimagining of the legend of the headless woman--but by its cataclysmic end has spiraled into a fevered, feral hymn to motherhood and a mesmerizing portrait of trauma and the monstrous bargains we make to protect those we love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496189591830,"sku":"9780316581554","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780316581554.jpg?v=1783057124","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/the-sleeping-sisters","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}