Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost.
LEE MANDELO is a writer, critic, and occasional editor whose fields of interest include speculative and queer fiction, especially when the two coincide. They have been a past nominee for various awards, including the Nebula, Lambda, and Hugo; their work can be found in magazines such as Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, Clarkesworld, and Nightmare. Aside from a brief stint overseas learning to speak Scouse, Mandelo has spent their life ranging across Kentucky, currently living in Lexington and pursuing a PhD at the University of Kentucky.
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"Summer Sons is a southern summer in book form: hot and hungry and
haunting. I couldn't put it down." --Alix E. Harrow "Truly intense:
you can smell the blood, the sweat, and the petrol. It absolutely
rips." --Tamsyn Muir "At once a raw, beautifully written gothic and
an adrenaline-fueled debut, Summer Sons heralds a rich new voice in
speculative fiction. Lee Mandelo is for real." --Andy Davidson
"Intense, sweaty, and literally haunting, Summer Sons is the
Southern gothic tale of race cars and graduate school I didn't know
I needed. Come for the slow-burn relationships, and stay for the
scalding hot twists." --Annalee Newitz
"Mandelo's visceral writing tugs at readers' hearts as well as
their amygdalas. Alternating between discussions of identity and
sexuality, the horror of grief and an actual haunting, it is part
The Fast and the Furious, part The Shining and part Ninth House."
--BookPage starred review "Full of angst and lingering spirits,
Mandelo's debut is like Tennessee molasses--dense, dark,
slow-moving, and with a distinct Southern flavor." --Publishers
Weekly "Hooks you hard and fast from the start, then drags you
kicking and screaming and loving it on a twisted backroad nightmare
full of bad boys and badder revenants." --Sam J. Miller "A
gripping, gasoline-drenched story of ghosts, friendships, and
things left unspoken." --Sarah Pinsker
"So visceral that you can feel the clammy sweat of fear and
secrets, and it's full of the ugly rubbing edges of masculine
frustration that's both the desire for violence, and desire
itself." --Shelley Parker-Chan "By turns scary, sexy, and
irreverent, Summer Sons is packed with a youthful intensity that
frequently dives aside into strange and wistful sadness." --The
Chicago Review of Books "Part nefarious ghost story, part academic
thriller, with a Fast & Furious vibe, this compelling tale of
mortal danger and dark supernatural power also thoughtfully
grapples with notions of masculinity." --Library Journal "Summer
Sons blends an academic setting with a healthy dose of body horror
and powerful themes of redemption and queer yearning in a narrative
that starts slowly and speeds over the finish line." --Booklist
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