explorer / books · 2025
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Published 2024 by DAW Books · 320 pages
Hugo · 2025
FinalistNebula · 2025
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3 award entries · 2 books · 1 wins · 2025–2026
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Synopsis
Shesheshen is a shapeshifting monster who falls in love with Homily, a woman from a family of monster hunters. Disguised as human, Shesheshen hides that she is the creature Homily's family is hunting while investigating the family's concealed history.
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