Cygnet: A Novel

Winner of the Writers’ Guild Award for Best First Novel

An utterly original coming-of-age tale, marked by wrenching humor and staggering charisma, about a young woman resisting the savagery of adulthood in a community of the elderly rejecting the promise of youth.

“Season Butler has written an imaginative, atmospheric and original
novel that lingers in the memory long after reading. She is a bright new voice
in literature.” —Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

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