Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto A Novel

by Chapman, Maile

• ISBN13: 9781555975876
• ISBN10: 1555975879
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-24
• Publisher: Graywolf Press

Summary

Sunny Taylor is an American nurse who hides behind a mask of crisp professionalism at a Finnish convalescent hospital called Suvanto. On a late-summer day, a new patient arrives on Sunny's ward, and soon Suvanto's reliable calm begins to show signs of strain. As summer turns to fall, and fall to a long, dark winter, the escalating menace of Maile Chapman's astonishing debut novel builds to a terrifying conclusion.

Author Biography

Maile Chapman's stories have appeared in A Public Space, the Literary Review, The Mississippi Review, and Post Road. She earned her MFA from Syracuse University and is currently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library.

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“[Chapman’s] voice can be coyly unnerving, as if whispering your naughty thoughts for you . . . Eerie and fascinating.” —Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)

“Unputdownable . . . A feminist thriller.” —Vogue

“Shockingly, bracingly good.” —Los Angeles Times

“Genuinely unnerving.” —The New Yorker