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Praise for Imaginary Girls

Eerie and gripping and told with lush and inviting scenes, Imaginary Girls will haunt its readers. An intensely vivid portrayal of love and no-choice loyalty and power that has no easy answers. –Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

A surreal little nightmare in book form. I just loved it. Nova Ren Suma’s voice is unique and riveting, and so is the indelible Ruby, who dominates the reader from the very first page. It’s the book everyone will be dying to talk about. –Nancy Werlin, author of Impossible and Extraordinary

A surreal and dreamy world where magical thinking is carried to a chilling extreme. Suma uses the story’s supernatural horror movie–ready elements in the best of ways; beneath all the strangeness lies beauty, along with a powerful statement about the devotion between sisters. –Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A sexy, surreal, and touching exploration of the outer limits of sisterly love’s power.… This glittering puzzle box of a story about the exertion of one girl’s will over life and death is as moving as it is creepy. –Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A strange, passionate tribute to sisterly bonds and an ominous, delicious tale that’ll scare everybody away from swimming for the summer, if not eternity. –The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

Imaginary Girls will submerge its readers in an eeriness and intensity not often felt in YA literature. –BookPage

…An atmospheric piece that draws readers in and holds them through unexpected developments. –School Library Journal (starred review)

There are ominous undertones to Nova Ren Suma’s poetic young-adult debut… With Imaginary Girls, Suma offers an atmospheric and creepy take on the life-and-death desperation of dysfunctional sibling love. –The Los Angeles Times

Just hold on tight, channel your inner Shirley Jackson, and immerse yourself in one subtle and twisted sibling relationship, courtesy of Nova Ren Suma. Imaginary Girls is one original dark tale and a read I doubt I will forget. –Bookslut

ROOKIE Reviews IMAGINARY GIRLS

Posted on October 22, 2011 by nova

I don’t know if you’ve been following the launch of the utterly awesome new online publication for teenage girls founded by Tavi Gevinson… It’s called ROOKIE. Well, I have. I think it’s so brilliant and inspiring and creative and everything I would have surely devoured as a teenager. So imagine my excitement when I saw my own book mentioned on ROOKIE!

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Figment Recommended Book of the Week

Posted on July 23, 2011 by nova

Imaginary Girls was the Recommended Book of the Week on Figment this past week! More→

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IMAGINARY GIRLS in the LA Times

Posted on July 13, 2011 by nova

If you live in Los Angeles, you may have noticed that Imaginary Girls was reviewed in the Sunday Books section of the Los Angeles Times this weekend!

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Starred Review in School Library Journal

Posted on July 1, 2011 by nova

Imaginary Girls got its fourth starred review—this one in the July 1 issue of School Library Journal! More→

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Review in BookPage

Posted on June 30, 2011 by nova

I was excited to see Imaginary Girls in this month’s edition of BookPage—and all the more thrilled to see what they said about the book.
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Launch Week Excitement: Books of Wonder! Signing Stock! The Fourth Starred Review! CAKE!

Posted on June 17, 2011 by nova

This was the launch week of Imaginary Girls, a week I’ve been excitedly and anxiously awaiting ever since the book sold, and I still can barely believe it’s here. More→

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Imaginary Girls
Fade Out / Dani Noir

Imaginary Girls

YA (ages 14+) • Available in hardcover & ebook in the US & Canada from Dutton.

Paperback edition with new cover forthcoming June 14, 2012, from Speak/Penguin. Order your copy today:

Available now in Australia & New Zealand from Pier 9 / Murdoch Books

Fade Out / Dani Noir

Originally published as Dani Noir in 2009 by Aladdin/Simon & Schuster. Now newly updated and retitled as Fade Out for the YA shelves from Simon Pulse

Fade Out is forthcoming in paperback June 5, 2012. Order now: