Peng was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where she rode horses and trained in classical ballet. She earned her M.F.A. in creative writing from New York University, and has lived in Beijing, London, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and New York. The Book of M is her first novel. Visit Peng online at pengshepherd.com, and find her on Facebook and Twitter: @pengshepherd.
‘Ambitious road-trip epic… a moving treatise on love and loss, with
the bonus of a stunning denouement’
GUARDIAN ‘Peng Shepherd’s debut novel is the real deal…a meditation
on memories and personhood’
ELLE ‘Graceful and riveting’
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ‘I was both disturbed and inspired by Max’s and
Ory’s journey through apocalypses large and small. Peng Shepherd
has written a prescient, dark fable for the now and for the
soon-to-be. THE BOOK OF M is our beautiful nightmare shadow’
Paul Tremblay, author of A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS and THE CABIN AT THE
END OF THE WORLD ‘A voice that's as emotionally compelling as GONE
GIRL, a novel that's as thrilling as THE STAND. Prepare to fall in
love with your own shadow. And to lose sleep’
David Lipsky, New York Times best-selling author of ALTHOUGH OF
COURSE YOU END UP BECOMING YOURSELF and ABSOLUTELY AMERICAN ‘THE
BOOK OF M is exciting, imaginative, unique, and beautiful. Shepherd
proves herself not just a writer to watch, but a writer to
treasure’
Darin Strauss, bestselling author of HALF A LIFE
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