Daisy Johnson
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Gretel grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals and speaking a private language of their own invention, until the day she disappeared and abandoned Gretel to foster care. Now a lexicographer, Gretel has tried to move on, but an unexpected phone call brings the past rushing back. To find her mother, Gretel must face buried memories of a fateful winter when they sheltered a runaway boy and were stalked by an ominous creature lurking...
2) Sisters
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"'One of her generation's most intriguing authors' (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a...