Tell Me What I Am

Name: Tell Me What I Am
ISBN: 9781035034697

by Una Mannion

Gold Dagger · 2024 · Winner

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MantleSeptember 7, 2023Mystery & Crime Literary FictionISBN 9781035034697

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Gold Dagger Award	2024	Winner	“Una Mannion's literary crime debut won for its quiet, devastating portrait of a family fractured by grief and the long aftermath of violence—a distinctly literary sensibility applied to crime fiction conventions.”

About This Book

Set in rural Pennsylvania in the early 1970s, this literary crime novel traces the aftermath of a tragedy that fractures a family, examining the silences and secrets that shape a generation.

About the Author

Una MannionIE

Una Mannion is an Irish-American author whose debut novel Tell Me What I Am won the CWA Gold Dagger in 2024. Born and raised in County Mayo, Ireland, Mannion spent part of her childhood in the United States, an experience that informs her fiction's dual perspective on Irish and American identity. Tell Me What I Am is a literary crime novel set in rural Pennsylvania in the early 1970s, exploring a tragedy that fractures a family and its long aftermath. Read more →