Someone You Can Build a Nest In (First printing)

Wiswell, John

ISBN 10: 0756418852 / ISBN 13: 9780756418854

Edité par DAW, 2024

As new. First printing with full number line. **Nebula Award Nominee****Hugo Award Nominee. This unusual queer romance is a heartfelt fable about disability and the possibility of reconciling conflicting needs through love and understanding. The Guardian "Sweetly furious, darkly funny, and gruesomely wholesome. It's a love story for the unloved, a happily-ever-after with a higher-than-average body count. I just adored it." Alix E. Harrow, New York Times-bestselling author of Starling House Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love.Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by impolite monster hunters, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth.Badly hurt by the hunters, Shesheshens nursed back to health by Homily, a warm-hearted human. Homily is kind and would make a great co-parent: an ideal place to lay Shesheshens eggs so their young can devour Homily from the inside out. But as they grow close, Shesheshen realizes that eating her girlfriend isnt an option.Just as Shesheshens about to confess her identity, Homily reveals something else: shes hunting a shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Has Shesheshen seen it anywhere?Shesheshen didnt curse anyone, so now she has to figure out why Homilys twisted family thinks she did. As Shesheshens hunt for the monster becomes increasingly deadly, the bigger challenge remains: learning how to build a life with, rather than in, the woman she loves. "A creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance-from the perspective of the monster-by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell"-. N° de réf. du vendeur 015845

Synopsis :

One of the Best Books of the Year So Far from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Polygon, and Bookpage

A Most-Anticipated Book of 2024 from: Amazon, Polygon, io9, Apple Books, Goodreads, Reactor, Book Riot, Writer’s Digest, and Nerd Daily
 
“This unusual queer romance is a heartfelt fable about disability and the possibility of reconciling conflicting needs through love and understanding.” —The Guardian
 
"Sweetly furious, darkly funny, and gruesomely wholesome. It's a love story for the unloved, a happily-ever-after with a higher-than-average body count. I just adored it." —Alix E. Harrow, New York Times-bestselling author of Starling House
 
Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love.
 
Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by impolite monster hunters, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth. 
 
Badly hurt by the hunters, Shesheshen’s nursed back to health by Homily, a warm-hearted human. Homily is kind and would make a great co-parent: an ideal place to lay Shesheshen’s eggs so their young can devour Homily from the inside out. But as they grow close, Shesheshen realizes that eating her girlfriend isn’t an option.
 
Just as Shesheshen’s about to confess her identity, Homily reveals something else: she’s hunting a shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Has Shesheshen seen it anywhere?
 
Shesheshen didn’t curse anyone, so now she has to figure out why Homily’s twisted family thinks she did. As Shesheshen’s hunt for the monster becomes increasingly deadly, the bigger challenge remains:  learning how to build a life with, rather than in, the woman she loves.

“A stealthily funny, slyly smart, and remarkably touching story. Its wisdom will creep up on
you as surely as your affection for its monstrous main character.”—Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of When Among Crows

À propos de l?auteur: John Wiswell is a disabled writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. He won the 2021 Nebula Award for Short Fiction for his story, "Open House on Haunted Hill," and the 2022 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "That Story Isn't The Story." He has also been a finalist for the Hugo Award, British Fantasy Award, and World Fantasy Award. His fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Tor.com, the LeVar Burton Reads podcast, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Diabolical Plots, and other fine venues. His debut novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, will be published by DAW Books in April 2024. He can be found making too many puns and discussing craft on his Substack, johnwiswell.substack.com.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Someone You Can Build a Nest In (First ...
Éditeur : DAW
Date d'édition : 2024
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Fine
Etat de la jaquette : Fine
Edition : 1st Edition