Others of my Kind

Description

At age eight, Jenny Rowan was abducted and kept for two years in a box beneath her captor's bed. Eventually she escaped and, after living for 18 months on cast-offs at the local mall, was put into the child-care system. Suing for emancipation, at age 16 she became a legal adult. Now she works as a production editor for the local public TV station, and is one of the world's good people. One evening she returns home to find a detective waiting for her. Though her records are sealed, he somehow knows her story. He asks if she can help with a young woman who was abducted.

James Sallis has published sixteen novels, multiple collections of short stories, essays, and poems, books of musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. He has written about books for the LA Times, New York Times, and Washington Post, and for some years served as a books columnist for the Boston Globe. He has received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Litterature policiere.

The thriller writer's thriller writer. His prose is intense... his stories so dark they almost inflict pain, and his sense of place exact -- Geoffrey Wansell * Daily Mail * Haunting and immensely readable -- Andrew Taylor * Spectator * Others Of My Kind possesses an emotional depth that Sallis, or any other crime writer, has rarely reached before -- Doug Johnstone * Independent on Sunday * a terrific, stripped-back novella -- Doug Johnstone * Herald Scotland: Books of 2013 * Yes, Sallis seems to be saying in this unusually positive novel, life can be cruel, but it need not destroy us -- Mary Whipple * Amazon *