Maria Dahvana Headley at Better Read Than Dead

Join Maria Dahvana Headley at Better Read Than Dead to discuss her new book The Mere Wife, and how and why she came to write it.

The Mere Wife is a fierce feminist retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers fight to protect those they love.

About the author
Maria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times–bestselling author and editor, most recently of the novels Magonia, Aerie, and Queen of Kings, and the memoir The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard she is the coauthor of The End of the Sentence, and with Neil Gaiman she is the coeditor of Unnatural Creatures. Her short stories have been short-listed for the Shirley Jackson, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle, where the first draft of this book was written. She was raised with a wolf and a pack of sled dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho and now lives in Brooklyn.

The Mere Wife

Maria Dahvana Headley

RRP: $29.99 Pub date: 30 Jul 2018 Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Cover view

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The Mere Wife

Multi-time winner of the Australian Small Publisher of the Year Award