My third novel, Set This House in Order, marked a critical turning point in my career after it won the James Tiptree, Jr. Through a combination of timely foreign rights sales, the generous support of family and friends, occasional grant money, and a slowly accumulating back list, I’ve managed to make novel-writing my primary occupation ever since. My professor Alison Lurie helped me find an agent, and within six months of my college graduation Fool on the Hill had been sold to Atlantic Monthly Press. At Cornell University I wrote what would become my first published novel, Fool on the Hill, as my senior thesis in Honors English. I decided I wanted to be a fiction writer when I was five years old and spent my childhood and adolescence learning how to tell stories. Stripped of his magic and banished from Chicago at the end of Lovecraft Country, he’s found a way back into power and is ready to pick up where he left off. Yet these troubles are soon eclipsed by the return of Caleb Braithwhite. Now, the supply of magic potion she needs to transform herself is nearly gone, and a surprise visitor throws her already tenuous situation into complete chaos. Letitia’s sister, Ruby, has been leading a double life as her white alter ego, Hillary Hyde. Hippolyta isn’t the only one keeping secrets. But Hippolyta has a secret-and far more dangerous-agenda that will take her and Horace to the far end of the universe and bring a new threat home to Letitia’s doorstep. Fifteen-year-old Horace Berry, reeling from the killing of a close friend, joins his mother, Hippolyta, and her friend Letitia Dandridge on a trip to Nevada for The Safe Negro Travel Guide.

Back in Chicago, George Berry is diagnosed with cancer and strikes a devil’s bargain with the ghost of Hiram Winthrop, who promises a miracle cure-but only if George brings Winthrop back from the dead. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina to mark the centennial of their ancestor’s escape from slavery, but an encounter with an old nemesis leads to a life-and-death pursuit. Fans will find this a worthy sequel.”- Publishers Weekly In this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of Lovecraft Country and explores the meaning of death, the hold of the past on the present, and the power of hope in the face of uncertainty. “Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor.

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