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Maisy Card is the author of the novel These Ghosts Are Family, which won an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, AGNI, The New York Times, Guernica, and other publications. Maisy was born in Portmore, Jamaica, and raised in Queens, NY. She’s currently a public librarian and a fiction editor for The Brooklyn Rail. She lives in Newark, NJ.
THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY
American Book Award Winner || OCM Bocas Prize in Fiction Winner || PEN/Hemingway Finalist || Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlist || LA Times Book Prizes Art Seidenbaum Award Finalist || Audie Award for Literary Fiction & Classics Finalist
“An intriguing debut with an inventive spin on the generational family saga.”—Kirkus Reviews
“…These Ghosts Are Family is a tale of the most monstrous acts: intimate betrayals with unthinkable consequences.” —The Atlantic
“Her first chapter delivers a stunning series of second-person character portraits; they build into a centuries-spanning epic about race, trauma, and the weight of a lie.” —Entertainment Weekly
“There is magic in these pages.” —BookPage
“It is a measure of Card’s skill that we come to know these characters in three dimensions, even as they struggle to know themselves.” —Washington Post
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