From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of "Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century" comes "The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts"—an eerie, spellbinding novel of grief and guilt, with a razor-sharp eye for the absurdity and melancholy of the internet age.

Come on down to Auntie's to meet author Kim Fu! She will be here for her upcoming novel, "The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts". Kim will be in conversation with fellow author Sharma Shields.

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About the book

In the aftermath of her mother's death, Eleanor is unmoored. For years, her mother orchestrated every detail of her life—from meals, to laundry, to finances—so that Eleanor could focus on her career as a therapist. Left to navigate the world on her own, Eleanor clings to her mother’s final directive: use her inheritance to buy a house.

Desperate to obey her mother one last time, but finding few options she can afford, Eleanor impulsively buys a model home in a valley-turned-construction site, a picturesque development steeped in a shadowy history. It feels like a fresh start, until the rain comes—an endless, torrential downpour. As water seeps in through the house’s cracks, the line between what is real and what is not begins to blur. Haunted by the stories of her clients, a stream of workmen and bureaucrats she can’t trust, and visions of ghosts from her past and present, Eleanor’s reality unravels, and she is forced to reckon with the secrets she’s buried and the dark choices she’s made.

About Kim Fu

Kim Fu is the author of two novels, a collection of poetry, and most recently, the story collection "Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century", winner of the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, as well as a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Ignyte Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Awards. Fu lives in Seattle, Washington.

About Sharma Shields

Sharma Shields is the author of a short story collection, "Favorite Monster" (Autumn House Press 2012) and three novels, "The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac", "The Cassandra", and "Duckling" (Henry Holt 2015, 2019, and forthcoming 2027). She has received the Washington State Book Award in Fiction, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, an Artist Trust Fellowship, and the Changemaker Award from Humanities Washington for her work at Spokane Public Library.