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Karen Lord

KAREN LORD is the author of Redemption in Indigo (winner the Frank Collymore Literary Award), The Best of All Possible Worlds (winner of the Frank Collymore Literary Award), and The Blue, Beautiful World (long-listed for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction). She also edited New Worlds, Old Ways, and coedited We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope. Lord was born, raised, and continues to live in Barbados. Her latest work is The Angel at the Gates.

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The Angel at the Gates

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Forthcoming: 10/6/26

A man’s quest to resolve an inherited family trauma leads him to an enigmatic priory in a war-ravaged region, from which he’s not sure he will be able to flee

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