Megan Carnes
Author of The Reaching Man series
— Available March 6, 2024 —
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A deeply imagined fable of faith and revolt. -Kirkus Reviews
Megan Carnes has written a work of startling imagination. Here is a world, both strange and deadly, that feels at once feudal and extremely current. Along the way, Carnes acquaints us with heretics, horse smugglers, poisoners, and church thieves. These medieval people are criminals. They are also wonderful company. Grab this book now. You won’t put it down.
Annie Dillard, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; An American Childhood; The Maytrees; and others
This is an extraordinary, well, epic I think I’d call it. I’m in awe of Megan Carnes’s imagination. I love how, as I read, I kept thinking about authors like Milton, Thomas Mann, Dante, and also my favorite theologians. I love the milieu of it all.
Paul Harding, Pultizer-Prize-winning author of Tinkers; Enon; and This Other Eden
To call Megan Carnes’s beautiful novel a work of fantasy is to ignore the immersive and unsettling realism with which she depicts a world we have never seen but still understand. Gaelle is a wonderful heroine, at once frightened and steadfast.
Fred Miller Robinson, former editor of The Massachusetts Review and author of The Man in the Bowler Hat; The Comedy of Language; and Rooms in Dramatic Realism
About the Author
I'm a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. I have taught writing, life skills, and humanities at Davenport University. With my husband and three cats, I live in the midwest.
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