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This March, Bram Stoker Award®-winning author Cynthia Pelayo releases a dark modern-day retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and proves to be an utterly addictive novel of psychological suspense centered around a city’s haunted history and fairy-tale horrors.
Pelayo’s genre-blending fiction is inspired by folklore and delves into the rich history of Chicago while exploring concepts of grief, mourning, and cycles of violence.
This compelling mystery within a unique haunted-house story is told in gorgeous prose, with sympathetic, complicated characters who feel as if they could materialize off the page. Pelayo has given readers another can’t-miss novel, marked by its pervasive unease and riveting storyline. For fans of ghost stories that mine memory, fairy tales, and mystery, such as the works of Simone St. James, Jennifer McMahon, and Helen Oyeyemi.” ―Library Journal (starred review)
“Bram Stoker Award and International Latino Book Award winner [Cynthia] Pelayo offers readers an almost lyrical experience that twists and turns until its unexpected end.” ―Booklist
“A dreamlike modern fairy tale full of grief, longing, and murder, Forgotten Sisters is Cynthia Pelayo’s best yet. Like the best hauntings, this one will linger in my head for a long time.” ―Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones and The House of Last Resort
“Aspects of Forgotten Sisters glide past each other like ghosts as Cynthia Pelayo adroitly juggles past and present, reality and the supernatural, in this elegiac gothic novel. You’ll be haunted long after you’ve finished turning the pages.” ―Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor
“A gritty murder mystery about a house that drips with haunted histories and a river that carries dark secrets and dead bodies in its current, Forgotten Sisters is a mesmerizing, propulsive read that doesn’t just bend genre, it transcends it.” ―Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Cackle and Black Sheep
“Personal, historical, and heart deep. Forgotten Sisters captures the complicated sense of being stifled by home yet lost without it. From the eerie start to the unforgettable ending, Pelayo brings the chill of crime stories, grim fairy tales, and the gothic into a haunting mystery that will drag you into dark waters and never let go.” ―Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Queen of Teeth and A Light Most Hateful
“Forgotten Sisters is a haunting fairy tale, a haunted parable of loss and grief, a history of Chicago's tragedies, and a thrilling, page-turning, creepy who-done-it. Take me to the river….” ―Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World
ABOUT FORGOTTEN SISTERS:
Sisters Anna and Jennie live in a historic bungalow on the Chicago River.
They’re tethered to a disquieting past, and with nowhere else to go, nothing can part them from their family home.
Not the maddening creaks and disembodied voices that rattle the old walls.
Not the inexplicable drownings in the area, or the increasing number of bodies that float by Anna’s window.
To stave off loneliness, Anna has a podcast, spinning ghostly tales of Chicago’s tragic history.
But when Anna captures the attention of an ardent male listener, she awakens to the possibilities of a world outside.
As their relationship grows, so do Jennie’s fears. More and more people are going missing in the river.
And then two detectives come calling.
They’re looking for a link between the mysteries of the river and the girls’ home.
Even Anna and Jennie don’t understand how dreadful it is―and still can be―when the truth about their unsettled lives begins to surface.
- The real history of Chicago’s tragedies depicted in the novel which range from serial killers to the SS Eastland disaster of 1915
- As an author who was raised and still resides in Chicago, Pelayo can discuss the impact the Second City has on her writing and its crucial role in her new book
- How reading fairy tales inspired her work and the origin of ghost stories, why so many are based on historical facts and the creepy ghost stories depicted in the new book
- The little-known haunting history of the Chicago River and why there’s often a connection between water and the paranormal
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Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award® winning and International Latino Book Award winning author and poet.
She is the author of Children of Chicago, The Shoemaker’s Magician, Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, and Poems of My Night, all of which have been nominated for International Latino Book Awards.
Poems of My Night was also nominated for an Elgin Award.
Her collection of poetry, Into the Forest and All the Way Through explores true crime, that of the epidemic of missing and murdered women in the United States.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, a Master of Science in Marketing, a Master of Fine Arts in Writing, and is a Doctoral Candidate in Business Psychology. Cynthia was raised in inner city Chicago, where she lives with her husband and children.
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