Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren, live in Santa Cruz, California. She is the co-founder of the Otherwise Award and the current president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). Her new novel Booth published in March 2022 and was long-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves , won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian, was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.
Her 2004 novel, The Jane Austen Book Club , spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Karen Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels and three short story collections. A startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of brother- and sisterhood, Booth is a riveting historical novel focused on the very things that bind, and break, a family.
But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced, multiple scandals, family triumphs, and disasters begin to take their toll. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war.Īs the children grow and the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families.
Junius Booth-breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor and master of the house in all ways-is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.
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