Where Monsters Pray History_Gift_Guide SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE EDMUND WHITE AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION AND THE VERMONT BOOK AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • A BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time

Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award

When he first speaks to Norah Ellis

and lost loves set against an evocative space-opera background

Where Monsters Pray History_Gift_Guide SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZETo whom do Monsters pray when burdened with the cruelty of the world who so named them "monster"? An unholy unicorn meets a defiled sacrifice; an engineer embraces and abuses inorganic body enhancements for her family; and Frankenstein's creature, on his quest for death, may have finally found his mate. From irreverent mothers to genetically modified cats, meet the divine and mortal monsters in this collection of fiction and poetry.