Trouble the Saints

Name: Trouble the Saints
ISBN: 9780765397829

by Alaya Dawn Johnson

World Fantasy · 2021 · Winner

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Tor BooksJuly 21, 2020Science Fiction & Fantasy Historical FictionISBN 9780765397829

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel	2021	Winner	“Alaya Dawn Johnson's Harlem supernatural won for its gorgeous prose, its emotionally devastating portrayal of Black and brown lives in mid-century America, and the moral weight of its questions about violence and justice.”

About This Book

In 1940s Harlem, three Black and brown women—an assassin, a numbers runner, and an idealist—must navigate a world of corrupt power and sacred gifts, as their intertwined fates move toward an inevitable reckoning.

About the Author

Alaya Dawn JohnsonUS

Alaya Dawn Johnson is an American author of speculative fiction known for her Zephyr Hollis urban fantasy series and numerous standalone novels and short stories. She won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Trouble the Saints (2021), a dark fantasy set in 1940s Harlem featuring assassins with supernatural gifts. Born in Washington, D.C. Read more →