The Skin and Its Girl

Name: The Skin and Its Girl
ISBN: 9780593239834

by Sarah Cypher

Stonewall Book · 2023 · Honor

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Ballantine BooksFebruary 7, 2023Literary FictionISBN 9780593239834

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Stonewall Book Award	2023	Honor	“Literature honor”

About This Book

Sarah Cypher's debut novel follows a queer Palestinian-American woman who discovers a family secret through her great-aunt's lapis-blue skin. Stonewall Book Award Honor Book for Literature.

About the Author

Sarah CypherAmerican

Sarah Cypher is an American author and freelance book editor raised in a Lebanese Christian family near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She earned a BA in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University (1998–2002) and an MFA from Warren Wilson College (2017–2020), where she was a Rona Jaffe Fellow in Fiction, and her debut novel The Skin and Its Girl (Ballantine, 2023) received a Stonewall Honor and was shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize.Sarah Cypher website,CV,Loft Literary Center