She Is Haunted

* Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Shortlist
* 2022 Stella Prize, Longlist
"A Best Book of the Year" --The Guardian
"A Most Anticipated book of 2022" --Entertainment Weekly

With an unforgettable voice and exuberant wit, She Is Haunted is a masterful debut exploring issues of identity, connection, and loss, told with remarkable grace and assurance by Chinese/American/Australian author, Paige Clark.

In stories charged by the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, grief, exes, and the profundities of friendship, She Is Haunted features injured ballerinas, cloned dogs, and competitive call centers in settings as far ranging as future and present Australia, New York City's Chinatown, and suburban California. A mother cuts her daughter's hair because her own hair begins falling out; a woman attempts to physically transform into her dead husband so that she does not have to grieve; a woman undergoes brain surgery in order to live more comfortably in extreme temperatures.

Braiding the real and the surreal, both playfully witty and deeply insightful, these stories show us characters striving to make sense of the grand themes of family, love, death, and our changing world. She Is Haunted flags Paige Clark as a wondrous and wise new literary talent.

Author: Paige Clark
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: 05/17/2022
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.35w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781953387202

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/28/2022
Booklist 04/15/2022 pg. 17
Foreword 04/27/2022