‘Gods of Jade and Shadow’ Wins Sunburst Award

I was looking online trying to track where my copy of Mexican Gothic was (since the USPS IS WRECKED) when I heard the good news! Silvia Moreno-Garcia ‘s Gods of Jade and Shadow (Del Rey)–a well-loved book is bringing home the awards! “Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination,” the author’s offering from last year was awarded in the Adult category for the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. “Gods of Jade and Shadow is a brightly colored affair with that touch of seductive darkness…” Photo Credit: Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Sunburst Jury commented:

“Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is an exquisite genre blender with a painfully human story at its heart. Gods of Jade and Shadow masterfully mixes together fairy tales, romance, historical fantasy, a coming-of-age feminist story, and a lavishly detailed odyssey through Mexican history and mythology. It is truly a tale of the fantastic, defying categorization while celebrating the magic of imagination itself.”

“Reading Gods of Jade and Shadow was like meeting up with an old friend after a while–a comforting, ecstatic feeling that fills you from the inside out.” Moreno-Garcia’s work beat out these four other titles that were shortlisted for the same category:

Scott R. Jones, Shout Kill Revel Repeat [Trepidatio Publishing] Helen Marshall, The Migration [Random House Canada] Karen McBride, Crow Winter [HarperAvenue] Richard Van Camp, Moccasin Square Gar…