For fans of Yesteryear and The Radiant Dark --a propulsive, electrifying novel that examines motherhood and pregnancy following a mysterious, uncanny global event, illuminating the dangers of being a pregnant woman in a quickly changing world.

A door appears in the air above a pastoral clearing outside a tiny village in the Dolmades region—a brother and a sister venture inside a mystery, and the world as we know it will be changed forever.

Any man that enters is destroyed; any woman that enters returns with a secret—and then anytime between two days and two years, she gives birth. The pregnancies are never natural or predictable, the process as mysterious and unknowable as the children that result.

And of course—with any secret and every treasure comes the hunter.

A subversive, propulsive look at identity and dreaming amidst the capitalist obsession with mothering and the female body.

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Praise for this book

Praise for Catherynne M. Valente:



“Valente just knocks me flat with her use of language: rich, cool, opiated language, language for stories of strange love and hallucinated cities of the mind.” – Warren Ellis

"Comfort Me With Apples is a furious and tantalizingly crooked domestic mystery, as slim and sharp as a needle." – Melissa Albert, New York Time bestselling author of The Children



“The Past Is Red is magical realism meets the garbage patch. Every page is a new and surprising invention. It’s hilarious and sad and filled with an inexcusable amount of wisdom." – New York Times bestselling author Hank Green



“Lush and furious. . . Valente always delivers.” – Laurie Penny, screenwriter for The Haunting of Bly Manor



"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century." – Timemagazine, on the Fairyland series

“Valente modernizes the old-fashioned “what’s up with my husband” question that many heroines in dusty castles pondered...brings to mind Ira Levin’s classic The Stepford Wives.” – Silvia Moreno-Garcia

"I just about melted into the story, and someone will have to comb through Valente's exquisite prose to fish out my skeleton because I was wholly lost in the tale. It was so clever, so nefarious, so, well, Valente. To me, she's Angela Carter with knives for teeth." – New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi

“A gorgeous, funny, melancholy, splendid romp through a post-apocalyptic wonderland in which hope and despair are indistinguishable, and the human spirit burns with the joy and rage of a thousand suns. The Candide of our #@$\*%?! age.” – Ken Liu

"No one can move from sweet whimsy to bone-deep dread with the deftness of Catherynne M. Valente. ComfortMe With Apples is a darkly elegant fairytale-horror story that will haunt you in the best ways. Move it to the top of your TBR." – Christopher Golden

“When I say that [Fairyland] reminds me simultaneously of E. Nesbit, James Thurber, and the late Eva Ibbotson, I don't mean to take anything away from its astonishing originality. It's a charmer from the first page, managing the remarkable parlay of being at once ridiculously funny and surprisingly suspenseful. Catherynne Valente is a find, at any age!” – Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn



"Valente's subversive storytelling is sheer magic.” – Tamora Pierce, author of The Tortall novels

“Stories, unlike people, don't stay dead forever, or not always. They can live again--but [only by] miraculous touch of a very rare class of being, a kind of multi-classed genius/scholar/saint, who can restore them to life. Catherynne Valente is such a being.” – Lev Grossman

Praise for Radiance:

“A gleaming, screaming love letter to an imaginary age of interplanetary cinema, and its premiere female auteur, Radiance is an elegiac murder mystery set in a Mélièsian universe of wonders.” – Maria Dahvana Headley, New York Times bestselling author of Magonia

“A sleek rocket ship of a novel, swaddled in Art Deco decadence and glossy with an unsettling alt-history patina.” – The New York Times

“An intriguing examination of how we piece together our personal narratives.” – The Washington Post



Title: Nobody But Us
Author(s): Catherynne M. Valente
ISBN: 9781466821491
Copyright 2027
Release Date: July 13, 2027
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Countries: United States, Canada | Learn more about available countries
Language: English
Format: None available | Learn More about our supported formats
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