Krassi Zourkova has a pretty interesting and impressive background. She grew up in Bulgaria and came to the US to study art history at Princeton. After college, she graduated from Harvard Law School and has practiced finance law in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
If that's not enough, she's a poet! Her poems have appeared in various literary journals, and her essay, Book Collecting in the Absence of Books, about compiling a personal library under Communist censorship, won first prize in essay contests at Princeton and Harvard.
Her debut novel, Wildalone, is full of myth, magic, romance, and mystery. Thea Salvin, a Princeton freshman, is drawn into a love triangle with two very mysterious brothers and discovers terrifying secrets about her family —think Twilight and A Discovery of Witches.
Library Journal gave it a starred review and says:
"Zourkova pulls off a balancing act that few debut authors manage: a clever, dark romance steeped in mystery, with a bittersweet thread of melancholy and keen sense of place. Fantasy and romance lovers, as well as those who liked Donna Tartt’s The Secret History or Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin should enjoy this."
In the above video, Krassi discusses her love of libraries and how important they were to her childhood in Bulgaria. Download an egalley here!
- Annie
hi krassi,
I've just finished reading your novel. Impressive! I like the mix of dreaming & everyday life.
I'm a musician artist retired teacher 76 .. with time to reflect,
cheers lin
Posted by: lin | July 23, 2016 at 02:57 AM