shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior First Novel.
[My Book, The Movie: The Upstairs House; The Page 69 Test: The Upstairs House]
Fine's third novel, Maddalena and the Dark, was released in June 2023. She teaches writing in Chicago, where she lives with her family.
At Lit Hub Fine tagged seven novels inspired by other art forms, including:
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the SixRead about the other entries on the list.
Reid’s rock and roll story of a band’s seminal record requires multiple points of view, and the oral history lets her access each perspective just when she needs it. It feels like the transcript of a documentary about your favorite band, while at the same time giving us a fully built narrative.
Daisy Jones and the Six is among Elvin James Mensah's seven top novels that celebrate pop music, Glenn Dixon's ten best novels about fictional bands, and Benjamin Myers's top ten mentors in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue