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Lady of the House is a contemporary Southern gothic mystery about intergenerational trauma and the value of belonging. Katie Sanyal takes us on a journey of recovery and redemption that ripples through time over the course of 70 years to illustrate how one woman's past first haunts and then heals her future. Sanyal's novel is not only a powerful portrait of self-discovery but a deft lesson in how monsters are not born but made. A bold debut.-Lindsey Drager, author of The Archive of Alternate Endings and The Lost Daughter Collective Katie Sanyal's haunted debut novel, Lady of the House, sojourns knee-deep into Flannery O'Connor country. Killer tornadoes and godly racists and illicit skeletons in every closet make us pee our collective pants. Face to face with the ""... terrible and wonderful things within [our] hearts."" Sanyal's beautiful monsters ""...inhabit a place beyond past or present, the open sea of memory.""-Michael Gills, author of Before All Who Have Ever Seen This Disappear In her debut novel, Lady of the House, author Katie Sanyal has crafted a beautiful world in which she explores the emotional weight of living in a broken world. It is a story of personal growth, ghosts of the past, and a house in Georgia filled with secrets.-Gillian Ruppel, author of Paper Stars Katie Sanyal has a talent for creating complex, relatable, nostalgic stories filled with characters who feel like friends. In Sanyal's first novel, Lady of the House, you come for the magic and mystery, and stay for the heartfelt story about identity, family, and growing up.-Lauren Wigod, author of Blue Birdie

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Katie Sanyal is a debut novelist from Utah with roots in Georgia. She is an English major currently studying at the University of Utah. When she is not writing, she is reading, and when she is not reading, she can be found enjoying Salt Lake City with her friends and family.

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