Cursed Bread: A Novel

"I am always very excited to read anything by Sophie Mackintosh, author of the Booker longlisted The Water Cure and feminist dystopia Blue Ticket . She will shortly release Cursed Bread , a dreamy, fable-like tale of sexual infatuation, mysterious strangers, and deadly intoxication, which is based on the real-life mass-poisoning that took place in Pont Saint-Esprit, France, in 1951. I begged for an advance copy of Cursed Bread the second it was available; it’s sexy, stylish, and unsettling as we have come to expect of Mackintosh’s work. I’m also keen to read Jessica Johns’ Bad Cree , in which a young Cree woman haunted by her dream world, forcing her to confront the truth about her sister’s untimely death. Crimereads recently picked it out in an interesting article about what they called “an unprecedented era of Native American noir” , as indigenous and First Nations writers grapple with colonialism’s legacy of violence in fiction."