Karen Joy Fowler longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
We are excited to see Booth by Karen Joy Fowler longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize!
The epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history - John Wilkes Booth - pubblished this Spring with Putnam.
From the judges' statement: “What shapes us? And who gets to choose the stories we tell about our place in the world? With an eagle eye and a bone-dry wit, Fowler introduces the Booths, a 19th-century family forged by theatrical ambition and agonising grief within a household steeped in the racism and myth-making of the disunited States. As the novel unfolds, we know - and they don’t - that one day the ninth child, John Wilkes, will step forward with a gun in his hand to bring the narratives of dynasty and country decisively together.”
Karen Joy Fowler's previous novel, We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
