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Born in Spain of an English father and a Spanish mother, Susana Aikin is a writer and a filmmaker who has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. She was educated in both England and Spain; studied law at the University of Madrid, and later Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. In 1986, she started her own independent film production company, Starfish Productions, producing and directing documentary films that won her multiple awards, including an American Film Institute grant, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and an Emmy Award in 1997. She started writing fiction full time in 2010. She has two sons, and lives between Brooklyn and the mountains north of Madrid.
Genres: Historical
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The Brood (2025)
Rebecca Baum
"Baum's prose is hypnotic, lush, and bristling with menace. Every page pulses with life - cicadas buzz incessantly, roots twist with intent, and the forest hums with ancient hunger...It forces us to confront the things we would rather not think about: our bodies, their decay and function, and our place within a natural world that does not bend to us. Baum has given us a beautiful, terrifying hymn to the wilderness - both without and within."
