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Ruins, Child

Giada Scodellaro

  • Winner of the 2024 Novel Prize, selected from 1,100 submissions worldwide.
  • Debut novel by MacDowell Fellowship recipient Giada Scodellaro, described by Katie Kitamura as ‘an extraordinary talent’. 
  • Formally reminiscent of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, this is a surreal, polyphonic and truly contemporary meditation on place, community, creativity; rooted in Black American reality.
  • Comps: My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman; Counternarratives by John Keene.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : MAR 26, 2026
  • Imprint : Fitzcarraldo Editions
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  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781804272114
  • Price : INR 1,299
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Giada Scodellaro

Giada Scodellaro was born in Naples, Italy and raised in the Bronx, New York. She is a queer writer and artist who holds an MFA in Fiction from the New School. Giada’s writings have appeared in the New Yorker, BOMB and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. Giada is a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and is the inaugural Tables of Contents Regenerative Residency fellow. Her debut collection, Some of Them Will Carry Me, was named one of the New Yorker’s best books of 2022.

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