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Maggie Terry
Critic Reviews
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Maggie Terry is the most beautiful, most bitter, most sweet, and all around best detective novel I've read in years. Precise, insightful, heartbreaking, and page turning. --Sara Gran, author of The Infinite Blacktop
Post-rehab, Maggie Terry is single-mindedly trying to keep her head down in New York City. There's a madman in the White House, the subways are constantly delayed, summer is relentless, and neighborhoods all seem to blend together.
Against this absurd backdrop, Maggie wants nothing more than to slowly re- build her life in hopes of being reunited with her daughter. But her first day on the job as a private investigator lands her in the middle of a sensational new case: actress strangled. If Maggie is going to solve this mystery, she'll have to shake the ghosts--dead NYPD partner, vindictive ex, steadfast drug habit--that have long ruled her life.
Sarah Schulman is a literary chronicler of the marginalized and subcultural, focusing on queer urban life. She is the author of several books, including The Gentrification of the Mind, Conflict Is Not Abuse, and The Cosmopolitans. She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at CUN Y, and teaches creative writing at the College of Staten Island.
Book Details
- Publisher: Feminist Press
- Publish Date: Sep 11st, 2018
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.50in - 1.00in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9781936932399
- Categories: • Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths• Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators• LGBTQ+ - Lesbian
About the Author
Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at CUNY, Sarah Schulman's honors and awards include a Guggenheim in Playwriting and a Fulbright in Judaic Studies. A well-known literary chronicler of the marginalized and subcultural, Schulman's fiction has focused on queer urban life for thirty years. She is the author of several books; recent works include The Gentrification of the Mind, Conflict Is Not Abuse, and the novel The Cosmopolitans. Her plays and films have been seen at Playwrights Horizons, the Berlin Film Festival, and the Museum of Modern Art. An AIDS historian, Schulman is cofounder of the ACT UP Oral History Project.
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What people are saying
Mousse is a contemporary art magazine and publishing house based in Milan, Italy. Instagram | Facebook @moussemagazine | https://t.co/lmVF8TDBIX
Book Reviews by Calla Henkel https://t.co/b590dkNNyz “Maggie Terry” by Sarah Schulman (@feministpress, 2018); “Mercury Retrograde” by Emily Segal (@khole_emily) (@deluge_books, 2020); “Stage of Recovery” by Giorgia Sagri (@dividedpublishingltd, 2021).
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
Traversing the personal to the sociopolitical, Schulman's latest offers a strikingly rich portrait of lesbian identity. --Lambda Literary Review
A vivid depiction of Maggie [Terry]'s addiction, punctuated by the gritty New York City setting. --Publishers Weekly
A sprawling exploration of New York nostalgia, police brutality, addiction memoir, and queer love, with a mystery as the cherry on top. --Kirkus Reviews
"A classic Schulman tale that's as much murder mystery as it is a grimly funny comment on our semi-dystopian moment." --Lambda Legal
Sarah Schulman's startling brilliance and wry humor is everything. --Jacqueline Woodson, author of Another Brooklyn"Maggie Terry is the most beautiful, most bitter, most sweet, and all around best detective novel I've read in years. This book has depth and vision to spare. Precise, insightful, heartbreaking, and page turning--read this book, now." --Sara Gran, author of Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
"Clear-eyed and beautifully written, Maggie Terry is classic Schulman. She flenses and dissects the human condition, weighs every organ--how we connect, what forms the beating heart of a community--then magically breathes life back into the husk and helps it rise, reborn." --Nicola Griffith, author of So Lucky
"Inventive, boundary pushing, and absolutely electric, Maggie Terry centers women and queerness in the most exciting way, within a story you'll never want to stop reading." --Jill Soloway, creator of Transparent
Entirely original and mixing many genres, this book is about imagining a way forward when there seems to be no way at all." --Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman
"Ex-cop Maggie Terry draws us inside the greatest mystery of all--herself--in a reverberating story of our times. Sarah Schulman is at the top of her very considerable powers in this deeply humane novel. It is profoundly, just stunningly good." --Katherine V. Forrest, author of High Desert
Sarah Schulman's Maggie Terry is a page-turning murder mystery, yes. Yet what makes it so compelling and unique is the story of Maggie herself--a lovesick recovering addict, grieving for her former life and for a New York City that's now unfamiliar to her. In this context, Maggie's search for the killer, plus her own redemption, becomes something altogether more than a whodunit. Ultimately, Maggie Terry is a psychological portrait of a woman trying to make her way back from the edge, and an inspiring one at that. --Danny Caine, The Raven Book Store
What people are saying
Mousse is a contemporary art magazine and publishing house based in Milan, Italy. Instagram | Facebook @moussemagazine | https://t.co/lmVF8TDBIX
Book Reviews by Calla Henkel https://t.co/b590dkNNyz “Maggie Terry” by Sarah Schulman (@feministpress, 2018); “Mercury Retrograde” by Emily Segal (@khole_emily) (@deluge_books, 2020); “Stage of Recovery” by Giorgia Sagri (@dividedpublishingltd, 2021).