The Night Child - Hardcover

Anna Quinn owns the Writers' Workshoppe and Imprint Bookstore in Port Townsend, Washington, where she has been named the city's Patron of the Arts. She is a published poet and essayist with twenty-six years of experience teaching and leading writing workshops across the country.

''A powerful, beautifully written, transformative novel...'Must-read' is not a phrase I use often; I am using it now: you must read this book!'' --Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain

''What I had not expected was the surprise of being so completely in character with someone experiencing the kind of disassociation Quinn portrays. I don't think I have ever read such a strong rendition from the inside of such a dilemma, and more complexly, she made me care about Nora and identify with her. That's a very wonderful and difficult accomplishment.'' --Dorothy Allison, New York Times bestselling author

''I loved this book so much...I entered Quinn's book and lost myself and exited her book changed. She is hanging with the big dogs with this work...like Jodi Picoult and Ann Patchett. For me this book is about destruction and creation. It revolves around the early destruction of a child and her recreation (survival) as an adult, the destruction of an adult once her past explodes into her present tense and her recreation -- tenuous but real -- into the next chapter of her life...Readers will love it.'' --Lidia Yuknavitch, bestselling author of The Book of Joan

''Packed with riveting detail and radical emotional honesty, motored by a powerful (what I think of as a 'life depends upon it') authorial voice, this book does at least fifteen things novels are not supposed to be able to do. I won't name them, but I will tell you that it will stand you up against yourself in all the best ways possible. You will love this night child, and she will remind you to love the night child inside you. I can't remember a novel in which I have been more deeply emotionally invested.'' --Pam Houston, #1 Los Angeles Times bestselling author

''A flat-out page-turner that will have readers riveted as Quinn seamlessly, breathlessly, explores the result of an identity irrevocably fractured in childhood and one woman's struggle to ease the girl she once was, protect her own young daughter, and reclaim sanity.'' --Adrianne Harun, author of A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain

''Stay with this book, this author. She will tell you the galvanizing story of how the world ends and how it begins again: child by child.'' --Rikki Ducornet, award-winning author of Brightfellow

''Anna Quinn writes with bright and assured authority, making this a remarkable debut novel you won't soon forget. Her haunting story, expertly and lovingly crafted, leaves you breathless with both terror and hope.'' --#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs

''A wondrous journey into the heart of survival, and our power to save our own lives. Anna Quinn plumbs the mysteries of dissociation with lyrical courage, examining the tender line between our past and present. This is a remarkable book.'' --Rene Denfeld, bestselling author of The Enchanted and The Child Finder

''Quinn presents breakthrough emotional trauma, PTSD, and dissociation with frighteningly beautiful accuracy...Her people demonstrate the frustration and shame that often accompany psychological issues arising from severe abuse. They also demonstrate pathways out...Quinn books us on a vivid expedition inside Nora's mind as we scramble with her for its healing...Frightening and thrilling, a freight train of a read!'' --Bill Ransom, author of Burn

''The Night Child is beautiful, empowering -- it shows us that on the other side of harrowing there is healing. Anna Quinn writes for those who have been silenced and gives them a voice in Nora.'' --Erica Bauermeister, author of The Lost Art of Mixing, Joy For Beginners, and The School of Essential Ingredients

''Quinn's debut novel is stunning in its profound emotional authenticity and the luminosity of the prose...Nora's quest for truth is, ultimately, transformative.'' --Sue William Silverman, award-winning author of Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You

''Anna Quinn has created a story that reads like a thriller, one with the beating heart of a vulnerable child, and with the urgency of a woman unlocking her own psychic drama. The Night Child asks a vivid question about who gets a voice, and offers up the power that comes from reconciling outcast parts of ourselves.'' --Sonya Lea, author of Wondering Who You Are