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Jennifer Givhan opens her new novel with a warning disguised as a promise: a mother鈥檚 love is the oldest curse.

That line sets the register for a book that refuses to be defined by any single genre.

鈥淭he Sleeping Sisters鈥� reimagines the West Mesa Murders through Fortuna Mi茅rcoles, who has moved her family to a better neighborhood hoping to outrun a violence that has trailed her bloodline for generations, and Detective Jeanette Palacio, whose own cousins were among the original victims and who has spent her career chasing a case that was never closed.

When new killings begin, some appearing to be copycats of the original Reaper murders, an entire community turns suspicious of itself, neighbors watching neighbors, everyone a possible threat.

Told across multiple points of view in Givhan鈥檚 lyrical, feral prose, the novel moves through humor, dread and grief often within the same page. There were moments I had to put the book down simply to catch my breath.

What stays with you longest is how precisely Givhan names what Indigenous women and women of color carry every day, the low hum of fear that goes largely unacknowledged. As she writes, all girls and women are sacred, and the book insists on that truth even as it shows how easily society has allowed certain women to disappear without reckoning.

At its core, this is a story about mothers and daughters, the most formative relationship a woman carries, for better or worse. Givhan writes with unflinching honesty about how mothers toughen their daughters into survival and about the 鈥渦neasy alchemy of raising a fierce daughter鈥� only to find yourself leaning on her strength instead of your own.

It is also, quietly, a story about men, about how violence against women is enabled and normalized, but also about the men who show up as protectors without needing to be saviors.

Albuquerque itself is rendered as a full character, not as a backdrop and not as a cliche. Givhan captures the city as it actually is, beautiful and tumultuous, mysterious and ordinary, exactly as those of us who live here experience it.

鈥淭he Sleeping Sisters鈥� defies categorization by seamlessly blending genres. Its gory scenes evoke horror, while its propulsive mystery keeps readers engaged. Givhan鈥檚 lyrical poetry adds a unique layer, slowing the pace despite the plot鈥檚 intensity. This rare book鈥檚 ability to be both gruesome and beautiful creates an impossible-to-categorize tension.

鈥淭he Sleeping Sisters鈥� is a triumphant follow-up to 鈥淪alt Bones.鈥� It is not a comfortable read, and it is not meant to be. It asks readers to sit with what they would rather look away from, and to come out the other side with something like hope.

What lingers most is Givhan鈥檚 author鈥檚 note, where she names the women who have been identified among the West Mesa victims and the detective who has continually worked to search for justice for these victims. It is a quiet, deliberate choice, and it is the heart of this book. Beneath the myth and the mystery, this is a story insisting that these were real women, with real names, who deserved to be remembered as more than just a case number.

鈥淭he Sleeping Sisters鈥� publishes August 18. Givhan will celebrate the release at Books on the Bosque at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 18, in conversation with bestselling author T. Kingfisher.

Kara Sandoval is the event coordinator and a bookseller at Books on the Bosque, located at 6261 Riverside Plaza Lane, Suite A-2, or at .