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Nova Ren Suma

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Nova Ren Suma is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling and #1 Indie Next Pick The Walls Around Us as well as A Room Away from the Wolves, both finalists for an Edgar Award, among other acclaimed novels. She was co-editor of the story & craft anthology FORESHADOW: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading & Writing YA, and her own short stories appear in various anthologies. She is a MacDowell fellow, a Yaddo fellow, and has taught creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and Vermont College of Fine Arts. She grew up in the Hudson Valley and now lives in Philadelphia. Wake the Wild Creatures is forthcoming from Little, Brown in May 2025.

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WAKE THE WILD CREATURES is coming to France!

I’m overjoyed to tell you that the French language edition of Wake the Wild Creatures is about to be published by Gallmeister in France this week… and I have a stunning cover to reveal! If you happen to be in France, please look for Wake the Wild Creatures with this truly luminous cover. (I’d be […]
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“Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.”
― Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls
tags: lonley, revelation
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“Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.”
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“Ruby’s stories didn’t have morals. They meant one thing in the light and one thing in the dark and another thing entirely when she was wearing sunglasses.”
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