* Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Shortlist
* 2022 Stella Prize, Longlist
"A Best Book of the Year" --*The Guardian
*"A Most Anticipated book of 2022" --Entertainment Weekly
With an unforgettable voice and exuberant wit, She Is Haunted is a
masterful debut exploring issues of identity, connection, and loss, told
with remarkable grace and assurance by Chinese/American/Australian
author, Paige Clark.
In stories charged by the complexities of mother-daughter relationships,
grief, exes, and the profundities of friendship, She Is Haunted
features injured ballerinas, cloned dogs, and competitive call centers
in settings as far ranging as future and present Australia, New York
City's Chinatown, and suburban California. A mother cuts her daughter's
hair because her own hair begins falling out; a woman attempts to
physically transform into her dead husband so that she does not have to
grieve; a woman undergoes brain surgery in order to live more
comfortably in extreme temperatures.
Braiding the real and the surreal, both playfully witty and deeply
insightful, these stories show us characters striving to make sense of
the grand themes of family, love, death, and our changing world. She Is
Haunted flags Paige Clark as a wondrous and wise new literary talent.
