Summer of the Cicadas

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Summer of the Cicadas is about a West Virginian town where a brood of Magicicadas emerges for the first time in seventeen years. The cicadas damage crops and trees, and swarm locals. Jessica, a former cop whose entire family was killed in a car crash two years earlier, is deputized during the crisis. Throughout the book, Jessic

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"Chelsea Catherine is a bright, raw, original new voice in American fiction. Her prose is electric. AndSummer of Cicadaswas a novel I couldnt put down."Thomas Christopher Greene, author ofThe Perfect Liar

"Many authors are good at writing about the body. Few authors excel at writing the body of the world, the way it moves through everyone: cicadas owning us, making us restless, flirtatious, fearful even; shadows hiding our shadows; the defeating pines; the teasing sun. Chelsea Catherine creates a natural world as real as her characters. But its not about her deft ability at description or setting; its about her deep understanding of how everything moves as onepeople, moods, moments, manifestationsand the modern Romance (with a capital R) of it all."Erica Dawson,author ofWhen Rap Spoke Straight to God

"Catherine wraps a fast-paced, stirring narrative about loss and unrequited love into a story about an unusually aggressive 17-year cicada swarm and the terror it brings to the residents of a West Virginia town."Publisher's Weekly

"We see the authors ability to understand how everything comes together including terror and love."Amos Lassen

"Readers who enjoy stories about plucky teens in peril will find Musicks novel well written. And because Clares viewpoint is so literal, the crimes are more horrificand the redemption even sweeter."Shelf Media Group

Author Bio

Chelsea Catherine is a PEN Short Story Prize Nominee, a winner of the Raymond Carver Fiction Contest in 2016, a Sterling Watson fellow, and an Ann McKee Grant recipient. Her novella Blindsided won the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and was published in October of 2018. Her nonfiction recently won the Mary C. Mohr Award through the Southern Indiana Review. A native Vermonter, Catherine lived in Key West for two years where she was secretary of the Key West Writers Guild. She now lives in St. Petersburg, FL.