Someone You Can Build a Nest In
by John Wiswell · 2024
Literary Fiction · ranked #258 in category
Winner · The Nebula Award for Best Novel, 2025
Shesheshen, a shapeshifting monster who has lived in a ruined keep for centuries, falls in love with Homily, the woman sent by a group of monster-hunters to kill her — and must navigate romance while hiding what she really is. Wiswell's Nebula Award-winning novel is a horror-romance that takes its monster's perspective entirely seriously, asking what love looks like when one partner literally cannot show their true self.
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