Sarah Langan
Sarah Langan is a three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning writer whose novels (A Better World, Good Neighbors, The Missing, etc.) have made best-of-the-year lists at NPR, Newsweek, The Irish Times, AARP, and Publishers Weekly. Her short stories have appeared in Nightmare, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Wired, The Year's Best Horror, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She has an MFA from Columbia University and an MS in Environmental Health Science/Toxicology from NYU, and she lives in Los Angeles with her family. She is joining us with her sixth novel, Trad Wife.
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Trad Wife
A journalist descends into horror as she uncovers the sinister truth behind a trad wife influencer in this “flat-out brilliant” (Paul Tremblay, New York Times-bestselling author) blend of chilling suspense and razor-sharp commentary on modern femininity, performative domesticity, and social media.
Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the “trad wife” queen, on her idyllic three-hundred-acre farm. With her handsome husband, seven well-behaved children, and a life of from-scratch meals and pastoral bliss, she’s an icon of modern femininity. But behind every perfect image is a secret. And in this case, the secret is a horror.
Desperate to save her tarnished career, journalist Jenny Kaplan arrives at Black Swan Farm to profile Mia. Jenny is ready to write a scathing exposé, determined to expose the deception behind Mia’s curated life. But soon, Jenny has more to contend with than staged videos and camera-ready poses. There’s something wrong at the farmhouse. Something slithers through Jenny’s dreams, and at night, the children sing strange nursery rhymes.
She’s losing time. She’s losing her hair. She starts to worry that she’s losing her mind.
There is a horror at the heart of Black Swan, and it’s waiting just for Jenny. Trad Wife will make you question what’s real and what’s just a perfectly curated deception…
Will you see the lie?
