Overview

Centered on six women sharing a space in a derelict apartment tower and set in what maybe the future, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its sweep, wit, and the sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, powered along by snatches of speech. “The woman is old, I hear children saying nearby, not in the way we consider all adults to be old, but really old, ancient, she is endless.” Using the lenses of urban infrastructure, botany, folklore, choreography, and collective listening, Ruins, Child creates a new ethnography of place and an ode both to communal ruins and to resistance. In the vivacity of their telling, Scodellaro’s heroines obscure authority, setting afoot a radical freeing-up. “Looseness, that is the thing people fear in a person (in women) and in objects.”

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""Giada Scodellaro is an extraordinary talent."" -- Katie Kitamura ""The female protagonists who appear in Scodellaro’s kinetic début collection of stories find themselves in absurdist and fantastical scenarios that interrogate the nature of subjectivity."" -- The New Yorker ""Her prose makes the borders of genre feel irrelevant… What matters is Scodellaro’s exhilarating freedom of mind."" -- Julia Conrad - The Millions

Giada Scodellaro is an extraordinary talent.--Katie Kitamura Her prose makes the borders of genre feel irrelevant... What matters is Scodellaro's exhilarating freedom of mind.--Julia Conrad ""The Millions"" The female protagonists who appear in Scodellaro's kinetic début collection of stories find themselves in absurdist and fantastical scenarios that interrogate the nature of subjectivity.-- ""The New Yorker""

""Giada Scodellaro is an extraordinary talent."" -- Katie Kitamura ""The female protagonists who appear in Scodellaro’s kinetic début collection of stories find themselves in absurdist and fantastical scenarios that interrogate the nature of subjectivity."" -- The New Yorker ""Her prose makes the borders of genre feel irrelevant… What matters is Scodellaro’s exhilarating freedom of mind."" -- Julia Conrad - The Millions ""Riveting, evocative, written with intensity and purpose, these potent, self-contained fictions have a vitality all their own—and they announce the arrival of a brilliant new voice in literature."" -- Alexandra Kleeman ""These are Black characters whose existence in their surreal landscape is as natural as the soft mentions of cocoa butter on thighs. A world immediately recognizable even in its strangeness. A world confident in and of itself. These are the soft and fragrant spaces of the dreams of Black writers and readers alike. The wholeness of the marginalized existence, what it is like inside the body and inside the love when not viewed from the outside."" -- Georgie Fehringer - The Rumpus ""Readers encountering this extraordinary book for the first time will rejoice."" -- Booklist, starred review

Author Information

GIADA SCODELLARO is the author of the collection Some of Them Will Carry Me (Dorothy, a publishing project), named one of the The New Yorker’s best books of 2022. Her writings have appeared in or are forthcoming from The New Yorker, BOMB, Harper’s, Granta, and Brick, among others. She is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University. Winner of The Novel Prize, her debut novel, Ruins, Child, is out now from New Directions (US), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK), and Giramondo (AU)

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