Book of American Martyrs

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Accursed. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

‘The story of Trump’s America’ Daily Mail‘Page-turning, gripping, full of unexpected twists’ Observer‘A magnificent story of two broken families, both steeped in grief’ Independent‘Icily subtle … at its spine-tingling best when staring into the dark, a sliver away from the Gothic’ Spectator‘Dramatic, dazzling, ingenious, agile … her uniquely sane, empathetic voice seems particularly vital and timely during Trump’s presidency’ Literary Review‘The most relevant book of Oates’s half-century-long career . . . a masterpiece’ Washington Post‘Oates's American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country. A graceful and excruciating story of two families who do not live very far apart, but exist in different realities’ USA Today