Susan Palwick – författare

The great modern SF novel of the immigrant experience, as timely today as it was on its firstpublication This new Tor Essentials edition of The Necessary Beggar includes an introduction by JoWalton, Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of Among Others.

Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness--with bravery and compassion--for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones.Emma is twelve, a perfectly normal girl, in a perfectly normal home. With a perfectly normal father...who comes into her bedroom every night in the hours before dawn. Emma will do anything to escape. From the visits. From the bodies. From the breathing. Even go walking on the ceiling--which is where Emma meets Ginny, the sister who died before she was born. Ginny, who knows things. Ginny, who can fly....At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Melinda Soto, aged sixty-four, vacationing in Mexico, is murdered by a fellow American tourist. Back in her hometown of Reno, Nevada, she leaves behind her adopted son, Jeremy, whom she rescued from war-torn Guatamala when he was a toddler—just one of her many causes over the years. And she leaves behind a circle of friends: Veronique, the academic stuck in a teaching job from which she can''t retire; Rosemary, who''s losing her husband to Alzheimer''s and who''s trying to lose herself in volunteer work; Henrietta, the priest at Rosemary''s and Melinda''s church.Jeremy already had a fraught relationship with his charismatic mother and the people in her orbit. Now her death is tearing him apart, and he can barely stand the rituals of remembrance that ensue among his mother''s friends. Then the police reveal who killed Melinda: a Seattle teenager who flew home to his parents and drowned himself just days later.It''s too much. Jeremy''s not the only one who can''t deal. Friendships fray. But the unexpected happens: an invitation to them all, from the murderer''s mother, to come to Seattle for his memorial. It''s ridiculous. And yet, somehow, each of them begins to see in it a chance to heal. Aided, in peculiar ways, by Jeremy''s years-long obsession with the comic-book hero Comrade Cosmos, and the immense cult of online commentary it''s spawned.Shot through with feeling and inventiveness, Susan Palwick''s Mending the Moon is a novel of the odd paths that lead to home.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Homecoming, by Susan Palwick, is a dark fantasy novelette about a young girl on the cusp of womanhood who yearns to leave her village and go to sea with her best friend, a boy about her own age, despite natural and supernatural dangers. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Susan Palwick, novelist and Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, volunteers four hours a week as a lay chaplain in the emergency room of a local hospital.  In Brief Visits, a single volunteer shift unfolds in forty-five sonnets, short poems allowing us to hear the many voices--the patients’, the staff’s, the chaplain’s--of the ER.  These stories, snippets of much larger ones, capture both the chaos and the beauty of the dramas unfolding every day in every hospital, where the human search for meaning is driven by stark reminders of mortality.