Her new novel, for instance, involves an ordinary Midwestern family: two parents and three children.Īnd why not? If Gregor Samsa can turn into a cockroach and Edward Albee can ask, “ Who is Sylvia?”, a chimp for a sibling doesn’t seem so far down the evolutionary tree.
Award, a prize “for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender.” In 1991, she co-founded the James Tiptree, Jr. Her stories have won the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award. But aside from that domesticated crowd-pleaser, Fowler is also the author of genre-blending works of historical fiction and fantasy. You know Karen Joy Fowler, though probably only for her least representative novel - that charming bestseller “The Jane Austen Book Club.” It landed with perfectly calibrated Janite wit in 2004 during a wave of renewed enthusiasm for Austen and book clubs.
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