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Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts in 1970, but spent most of his life in the South. Ballingrud is the author of the collections North American Lake Monsters and Wounds: Six stories from the Border of Hell. He's been awarded two Shirley Jackson Awards, and have shortlisted for the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards. Among other things, he has been a cook on oil rigs and barges, a waiter, and a bartender in New Orleans. He now lives in North Carolina.
"""A propulsive story that reads like a love letter to the space western.""-- ""-The Sunday Times"" ""Ballingrud makes this whole strange scenario work with surprising ease.""-- ""--The Wall Street Journal"" ""Ballingrud stretches the boundaries of the genre by employing these grand worlds.""-- ""--The New York Times"" The Strange is an adventure tale of the best kind: an unusual setting with vivid characters and an unpredictable ending. With every turn of the page, I wondered what would happen next.""----Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of An Easy Death and the Sookie Stackhouse series. ""The most enjoyable novel I've read in years, no contest. Before The Strange, I never realized I wanted to be marooned on the dustbowl of Mars, joining an epic quest through ghost towns haunted by the living. Ballingrud is already a master of literary horror, his short stories consistently brilliant. But in his page-turner of a debut novel, that talent radiates brighter than ever before.""-- --Mat Johnson, author of Invisible Things and Pym ""The Strange conjures a Bradbury-esque sense of childhood longing and creates a scrappy heroine that brings to mind True Grit, and yet it is utterly original and surprising. His wonderfully lyric work always feels as if it's part of a dream you once had and never told to anyone--yet somehow Ballingrud knows.""----Dan Chaon, author of Sleepwalk ""A definite page-turner. The writing is lovely and poetic and a perfect mix of well-written action and character.""----Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun ""A surprising, thrilling, emotionally powerful bildungsroman. The Strange is an instant classic.""----Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds ""Ballingrud is one of my favorite contemporary authors. His work is elegant and troublingly, wonderfully disturbing.-- --Victor LaValle, award-winning author of The Changeling and Lone Women ""Ballingrud's brilliant fiction brims with imagination, integrity (I do not use that term lightly), and an authentic world-weary dread that bores directly into your heart.""----Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club"
