PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
LEE MANDELO is a writer, critic, and occasional editor whose fields of interest include speculative and queer fiction, especially when the two coincide. They have been a past nominee for various awards including the Nebula, Lambda, and Hugo; their work can be found in magazines such as Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, Clarkesworld, and Nightmare. Aside from a brief stint overseas learning to speak Scouse, Mandelo has spent their life ranging across Kentucky, currently living in Lexington and pursuing a PhD at the University of Kentucky.
Feed Them Silence is a toxic love story with the world we're killing, delivered in Mandelo's visceral, melancholic prose. You'll want to put it down, but you won't. --Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of The Once and Future Witches Holy hell, what a visceral and heart-clenching book. Feed Them Silence is a searing portrait of what it means to give up distance for the sake of understanding. --Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Magic for Liars Lee Mandelo's crisp, urgent novella, centered on a study that links the consciousness of a researcher to that of one of North America's last wild wolves, is a new leader of the pack. --Scientific American Mandelo delivers a powerful message about environmentalism and the limits of technology that doubles as a page-turning story about a collapsing marriage. Urgent, intimate, immediate, this is sure to wow. --Publishers Weekly, starred review Marvelously original and told with sensual perfection, Feed Them Silence is a beautiful, haunting testament to human need--and a lament for everything it destroys. --Andy Davidson, author of The Hollow Kind An unsettling exploration of intimacy...Feed Them Silence subtly illuminates the disintegration of boundaries: humans and animals, work and love, research and exploitation. --E.J. Beaton, author of The Councillor This novella... will make readers consider their own beliefs regarding ethics, research, technology, and relationships. --Library Journal
