The Murders of Molly Southbourne
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Tade Thompson. (2017). The Murders of Molly Southbourne. Tor Publishing Group.

Tade Thompson. 2017. The Murders of Molly Southbourne. Tor Publishing Group.

Tade Thompson, The Murders of Molly Southbourne. Tor Publishing Group, 2017.

Tade Thompson. The Murders of Molly Southbourne. Tor Publishing Group, 2017.

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   • bioText: TADE THOMPSON is the author of the MOLLY SOUTHBOURNE BOOKS, the ROSEWATER novels, MAKING WOLF and FAR FROM THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN. He has won the Arthur C Clarke Award, the Nommo Award, the Prix Julia-Verlange and been a finalist for the John W. Campbell award, the Locus awards, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Hugo Awards among others. He was born in south London but considers himself a citizen of the world. He lives and works on the south coast of England.
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"A bold outpouring of flesh and crisis at once horrifying and familiar." —The New York Times
Winner of the 2018 Nommo Award for Best Novella

Every time she bleeds a murderer is born. Experience the horror of Tade Thompson's The Murders of Molly Southbourne. A finalist for the 2017 BSFA Award, the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award.

The rule is simple: don't bleed.
For as long as Molly Southbourne can remember, she's been watching herself die. Whenever she bleeds, another molly is born, identical to her in every way and intent on her destruction.
Molly knows every way to kill herself, but she also knows that as long as she survives she'll be hunted. No matter how well she follows the rules, eventually the mollys will find her. Can Molly find a way to stop the tide of blood, or will she meet her end at the hand of a girl who looks just like her?
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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   • source: Paul Tremblay, author of Disappearance at Devil's Rock
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     "The Murders of Molly Southbourne is so strange and well-written and well-conceived. I read it in one sitting and yet it follows me around wherever I go. I loved it."

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   • source: The New York Times
   • content: "A bold outpouring of flesh and crisis at once horrifying and familiar."
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   • source: Elizabeth Bear, author of Karen Memory
   • content: "Inventive, chilling, and professionally rendered."
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   • source: Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels and Mapping the Interior
   • content: "This premise fleshes out the strangeness and the grace of the human condition as well as anything I've read."
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   • source: Cassandra Khaw, author of the Persons Non Grata series
   • content: "Tade Thompson's writing is as inexorable as a march to the executioner's block, layered with cold dread and an exquisite understanding of body horror."
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   • source: Max Gladstone, author of the Craft Sequence
   • content: "The Murders of Molly Southbourne is bloody, quiet, haunting, and sharp--a book worth savoring."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "This bloody exploration of identity and self in a changed world will stay with readers long after they finish the last page."
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   • source: Kirkus
   • content: "A bloody, intriguing puzzle of a novella."
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   • source: Locus
   • content: "An enormously vivid, enormously peculiar novel... compellingly written."
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    • content: "Excellent, bloody, unsettling."
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    • source: Fran Wilde, award-winning author of Updraft, Cloudbound, and Horizon
    • content: "The Murders of Molly Southbourne reaches deep into the heart of existence and drags our fears into the sunlight. An excellent, terrifying read."
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      August 14, 2017
      In Thompson’s chilling novella, Molly Southbourne has an unusual problem: when she bleeds, a copy of her is made, and it eventually turns murderous, forcing her to kill it. There are precautions she can take, and from the time she’s a little girl, growing up on a farm with her mother and father, she’s taught how to deal with her blood when it escapes her body. The rules are thus: “If you see a girl who looks like you, run and fight. Don’t bleed. If you bleed, blot, burn, and bleach. If you find a hole, find your parents.” The psychological implications of a child having to kill identical copies of herself (called mollys) is nightmarish, but otherwise Molly thrives, and eventually she heads out on her own. She attends college and attempts to use sex as a balm, hoping to find meaning in her existence. At a particularly grim point, she calls the rules “useless, an attenuation at best.” Thompson (Rosewater) ratchets up the body count, but this isn’t just gore for gore’s sake; there is a real aching sadness in Molly’s isolation, and when she discovers a possible explanation for her condition, it does nothing to assuage her hopelessness. This bloody exploration of identity and self in a changed world will stay with readers long after they finish the last page.

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      September 15, 2017
      

      Since childhood, Molly Southbourne has known she was different, with her parents setting a specific rule that she must never bleed. For when she bleeds, another identical molly is born to kill her. Molly has watched herself die many times, both at her parents' hands and at her own. She has learned how to survive her many selves, developing skills that would shame serial murderers and prevent her from living a normal life. No matter how much care she takes, Molly will bleed, and the other versions of herself will eventually find her. While she's accepted the specter of death chasing her, she wonders if there is any way to change her fate? VERDICT Horror fans will love Thompson's (Making Wolf; Rosewater) sordid, dark, and coldly logical tale.--KC

      Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Winner of the 2018 Nommo Award for Best Novella

Every time she bleeds a murderer is born. Experience the horror of Tade Thompson's The Murders of Molly Southbourne. A finalist for the 2017 BSFA Award, the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award.

The rule is simple: don't bleed.
For as long as Molly Southbourne can remember, she's been watching herself die. Whenever she bleeds, another molly is born, identical to her in every way and intent on her destruction.
Molly knows every way to kill herself, but she also knows that as long as she survives she'll be hunted. No matter how well she follows the rules, eventually the mollys will find her. Can Molly find a way to stop the tide of blood, or will she meet her end at the hand of a girl who looks just like her?
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