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The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit.
About Plain Bad Heroines:
“A delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire . . . [and] what makes all this so much fun is Danforth’s deliciously ghoulish voice . . . exquisite." —Ron Charles, THE WASHINGTON POST
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly • Washington Post • USA Today • Time • O, The Oprah Magazine • Buzzfeed • Harper's Bazaar • Vulture • Parade • HuffPost • Refinery29 • Popsugar • E! News • Bustle • The Millions • GoodReads • Autostraddle • Lambda Literary • Literary Hub • and more!
Emily M. Danforth is the author of the highly acclaimed young adult novel The Miseducation of Cameron Post. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She lives with her wife and two terrible dogs in Rhode Island. Plain Bad Heroines is her first adult novel.
Sara Lautman is an illustrator, cartoonist, and teacher in Baltimore, MD. Her drawings have been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, Playboy, Mad, The Paris Review, Tablet, The Awl, Catapult, Electric Literature, and other publications. Her published books include Lying & Cursing, I Love You, The Ultimate Laugh, Ghost Sex, Pictures of Bananas and Funny Bugs, The Humble Simple Thing (a collaboration with the novelist Sheila Heti) and Emily Danforth’s Plain, Bad Heroines (Harper Collins).