Tuesday, Jul 9, 2024
FI Library Presents Anna Noyes
About
Join the Fishers Island Library, Tuesday, July 9, 2024 @ 5:30 pm for a reading and conversation with Former Lighthouse Works Fellow and Island Resident Anna Noyes about her haunting new novel The Blue Maiden. A limited number of books will be available for purchase, or get yours now from your favorite bookseller.
From the author of Indie Next Pick and New York Times Editor’s Choice Goodnight, Beautiful Women comes a transportive and chilling debut novel of two sisters growing up on an isolated Northern European island in the shadow of their late mother and the Devil. A Nordic Gothic laced with the horrors of life in a patriarchy both hostile to and reliant on its women, The Blue Maiden is a starkly beautiful depiction of lost lineage and resilience.
Artist
Bio
Anna Noyes’ (19) debut novel, The Blue Maiden, is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic in May 2024. Her story collection, Goodnight, Beautiful Women, was a finalist for the Story Prize and the New England Book Award, as well as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, Indie Next Pick, Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and Amazon Best Book of the Month. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Vice, A Public Space, and Guernica, among others. She has received the Lotos Foundation Prize and the Henfield Prize, as well as residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, Lighthouse Works, the James Merrill House, and Aspen Words. She lives in New York, on Fishers Island.
