Sister of Grendel

Revenge, persecution, loneliness, the need for community and love and companionship, our fear of the other-all are woven in a tale that begins with an epic battle and ends with a tender moment of peace.

—Sherry Roberts, author of Crow Calling, Book of Mercy and Maud's House

In this vividly imagined world, readers gain a new perspective on Beowulf. Through the eyes of a monster’s sister, we explore the richness of an epic’s margins, the nature of generosity, and what one generation owes the next.

—Kim Todd, author of Sensational, The Hidden History of America's Girl Stunt Reporters

If you like lush writing, stories of female heroism, and the fight for survival, then Susan Thurston’s Sister of Grendel is the book for you. –Judith Yates Borger, author of Where’s Billie? Whose Hand? and Who Bombed the Train? I was especially taken by the deeply spiritual and erotic romance Thurston weaves into the narrative. The references to the foods, herbs, and plants throughout the story. . . are sumptuous details that added to the pleasurable experience of reading this novel. What a sensual feast.

—Cynthia Uhrich, award-winning filmmaker and co-author of My Life in the Purple Kingdom

The story’s layered and well-developed characters, combined with the tension, twists and sensory and poetic descriptions, hooked me from the beginning and held me to end.

—Therese Pautz, author of Raven Creek and Rain and Revelation