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Shirley Jackson Award Winner
Believer Book Award finalist

Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and hangers on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into art galleries and a book deal. But thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out. Then an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Downeast, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and into one final shot at redemption.

"Although it moves like a thriller, it detonates with greater resound. A dark and beautiful novel."
-- Washington Post Book World

"Cass is a marvel, someone with whom we take the difficult journey toward delayed adulthood, wishing her encouragement despite grave odds."
-- Los Angeles Times

"Hand’s terse but transporting prose keeps the reader turning pages until Neary’s gritty charm does, finally, shine through." (B)
-- Entertainment Weekly

* "Hand (Mortal Love) explores the narrow boundary between artistic genius and madness in this gritty, profoundly unsettling literary thriller."
-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A riveting page-turner."
-- Valley Advocate

"Intense and atmospheric, Generation Loss is an inventive brew of postpunk attitude and dark mystery. Elizabeth Hand writes with craftsmanship and passion."
-- George Pelecanos

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