Sara Taylor. ECW Press (Legato Publishers Group/PGW, U.S. dist.; Jaguar Book Group, Canadian dist.), $16.95 trade paper (386p) ISBN 978-1-77041-016-9
“But the girls are friends. And they killed him for a good reason,” 12-year old Rachel says as she looks at Artemesia Gentileschi’s famous and gory painting of Judith Slaying Holofernes—a hint early on that Taylor’s debut novel isn’t going to be...
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Sara Taylor. Random/Hogarth, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-41773-9
This searing debut novel comprises 13 nonlinear chapters that interweave past and future, realism and fantasy. Ranging from 1876 to 2143, their primary
setting is the Virginia coastal islands (Chincoteague is the best known) that residents call...
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Sara Taylor. Hogarth, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-49685-0
A mother and her teenage daughter embark on a cross-country journey through the mother’s past in this second novel from the author of The Shore. After months of listening to her parents argue, the narrator, Alex, 13, is suddenly living on the road...
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