On Sundays She Picked Flowers

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel 2026 prize

"A ferociously talented writer. Scholfield writes with insight, beauty, and the wildness of real art." -Victor LaValle

In this sinister and surreal Southern Gothic debut, a woman escapes into the uncanny woods of southern Georgia and must contend with ghosts, haints, and most dangerous of all, the truth about herself.

When Judith Rice fled her childhood home, she thought she'd severed her abusive mother's hold on her. She didn't...