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This author appeared at the 2012 festival. Please view the list of authors appearing at this year's festival or see our suggestions for similar authors below.
 Amelia Gray
David’s wife Franny has died a bloody, tragic death. Probably. Even
though he sat with her in her final moments, David believes something
complex and sinister is happening. Maybe his wife is still alive, living
down the street with someone who looks a lot like him, and maybe
everyone else knows what’s really going on. When the mysterious,
menacing notes begin to appear in unlikely places—inside a bag of sugar,
behind the wallpaper, buried in the backyard—David’s tenuous grip on
reality begins to fray. Each threat unhinges David a little more and he
becomes obsessed with discovering the meaning behind the messages: “CURL
UP ON MY LAP. LET ME BRUSH YOUR HAIR WITH MY FINGERS. I AM SINGING YOU A
LULLABY. I AM TESTING FOR STRUCTURAL WEAKNESS IN YOUR SKULL.” Set in a
world both immediately recognizable, yet full of surreal, unforgettable
images—from the wasp-covered woman in the garage, to the child sleeping
under the desks inside the police department—Amelia Gray’s debut novel
uses lyrical writing to explore the bizarre ways grief can impact our
lives. Threats has been praised by The Los Angeles Times as a “spooky, atmospheric debut novel…more David Lynch than Stephen
King.” The author of two previous collections of short stories,
including The Museum of the Weird, which won the Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize, Amelia Gray was also the founder of the Five Things reading series in Austin. Gray attended the 2009 Texas Book Festival with her first collection AM/PM.
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