Reprieve

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Product Details

Price
$27.99
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Publish Date
Pages
416
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.3 X 1.6 inches | 0.95 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780063079915

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About the Author

James Han Mattson is the acclaimed author of The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is the recipient of awards from the Copernicus Society of America and Human-ities North Dakota. He was a featured storyteller on The Moth and has taught writing at the University of Iowa, the University of Cape Town, the George Washington University, the University of Maryland, Murray State University, and the University of California-Berkeley. He is currently the fiction editor of Hyphen magazine. He was born in Seoul, Korea, and raised in North Dakota.

Reviews

"Surprising and spellbinding, Mattson's latest offering is a page-turner that keeps you guessing right until the explosive end. Smart and entertaining, Reprieve is the rare novel that's both thrilling and thought-provoking. A must-read!"--T. Geronimo Johnson, bestselling author of Welcome to Braggsville
A timely, devastating story about intersecting lives drawn to a dark and frightening place. Rich with insights about our contemporary moment and characters blinded by their desire for belonging and connection, James Han Mattson's Reprieve is the rare novel that will make your heart pound with terror while it aches with grief.--Jung Yun, author of Shelter
Reprieve takes horror as its subject, while also using the genre as its means, delivering twists and fright and the kind of storytelling that keeps you turning pages. But the brilliance of James Han Mattson's novel is in deploying the haunted house as a metaphor for our nation, where the true scare is a cultural reckoning with whiteness itself."--Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind
"Reprieve is an eventual American classic that is unrelenting in its beauty and incisive cultural critique. But it is James Han Mattson's treatment of his fully flawed characters that clutches my heart and head. Every room in this book has a secret room. Every character has a shadow trying to swallow them whole. I'm not sure there is 'fearless' American writing, but a few times a generation, there is innovative writing that appears to confront, shred, and accept the fears of its author and its readers with a wicked joy. Reprieve is that book. It really is."--Kiese Laymon, bestselling author of Heavy: An American Memoir
Reprieve is a tense, riveting novel about an American house of horrors where fear and desperate desire collide, exploding into violence. James Han Mattson writes with grace and conviction, delivering intimate portraits of flawed, fascinating people, down to the carnival distortions that occupy their minds.--Steph Cha, award-winning author of Your House Will Pay
"I'm in awe of the remarkable power of James Han Mattson's Reprieve in doing the impossible--it devastated me yet left me hopeful. It's the perfect novel for our time, combining a nail-biting murder mystery with brilliant social commentary on fetishization, misogyny, racism, and heteronormativity. I'm blown away."--Angie Kim, bestselling author of Miracle Creek
As each character's story unfolds and overlaps, revealing obsessions, prejudice, and secrets, Reprieve transforms from a classic horror story to a portrait--and social critique--of contemporary American life.--Literary Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2021