Ruins, Child

Centered on six women sharing a space in a derelict apartment tower and set in what maybe the future, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its sweep, wit, and the sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, powered along by snatches of speech. "The woman is old, I hear children saying nearby, not in the way we consider all adults to be old, but really old, ancient, she is endless." Using the lenses of urban infrastructure, botany, folklore, choreography, and collective listening, Ruins, Child creates a new ethnography of place and an ode both to communal ruins and to resistance. In the vivacity of their telling, Scodellaro's heroines obscure authority, setting afoot a radical freeing-up. "Looseness, that is the thing people fear in a person (in women) and in objects."

Giada Scodellaro was born in Naples, Italy and raised in the Bronx, New York. The recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, she is a queer writer and artist whose writings have appeared in The New Yorker, BOMB, and Harper's. Her debut collection from Dorothy Project, Some of Them Will Carry Me, was one of The New Yorker's best books of 2022.

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  
• Publish Date: April 07, 2026
  
• Pages: 128
  
• Language: English
  
• Type: Paperback
  
• EAN/UPC: 9780811240215
  
• Dimensions: 8 in H | 5 in W | 1 lb
  
• BISAC Categories: Popular Fiction, Literary Fiction