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• Winner of Winner, British Society for Science and Literature Book Prize.

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Defalco manages a straightforward, clear expression, often stepping back to summarize or restate key ideas in direct prose. The argument is well informed, drawing capacious research from varied sources into a coherent and compelling whole. * Choice * Frequent, careful, and extensive close readings demonstrate and clarify the argument and its stakes throughout the book. The chapters are both self-contained and accumulating toward a clearly stated and supported conclusion. As the argument builds, in DeFalco's conversational and inviting style, so do connections to a wide range of existing scholarship and tracks are laid for connections to related scholarship as well as current urgently needed engagements. The BSLS Book Prize has been well earned. * Jenni Halpin, Modern and Contemporary * This book by DeFalco is a timely intervention in the area of posthumanism and the various facets of posthuman care. Although a significant amount of literature exists on posthuman care, it is deficient in supporting evidence from speculative fiction. The appeal of Curious Kin revolves around its ability to incorporate a diverse range of real-life and fictional scenarios. It offers a complete philosophical and ontological take on posthuman care, deriving insights from diverse fields of study. * Journal of Posthumanism *

Defalco manages a straightforward, clear expression, often stepping back to summarize or restate key ideas in direct prose. The argument is well informed, drawing capacious research from varied sources into a coherent and compelling whole. * Choice *

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Amelia DeFalco is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative (2010), Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature (2016), and co-editor of Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro (2018).

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