Samantha Shea: MARROW and Kerry Cullen: HOUSE OF BETH
Both Samantha Browning Shea and Kerry Cullen’s debut novels– MARROW and HOUSE OF BETH– share an addicting, fiery quality that helps us experience a sense of mystery and wonder. It’s a perfect pairing to feature in conversation on the Ivy patio on a mid-October evening.
Tender and intense, witchy and wise, and written in prose that glitters and seethes, MARROW is a gripping novel about the complex bonds between mothers and daughters, about what we must believe in order to imagine a future for ourselves, and what we must let go in order to fully live it.
HOUSE OF BETH is a haunting and seductive tale of a young career woman who slides quickly into the role of stepmother, in a life that may still belong to someone else. “Vivid, addictive, and crackling with life (yes, even the ghost), it asks us to consider how and why we make the lives we make” (Lynn Steger Strong).
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Samantha Browning Shea is an author and the vice president of Georges Borchardt, Inc. literary agency. A graduate of Colgate University, Samantha lives in Connecticut with her husband and their two daughters. Marrow is her debut novel.
Kerry Cullen’s debut novel, House of Beth, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her short fiction has been published in The Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, One Teen Story, and more. She earned her MFA at Columbia University, and she lives in New York.
