Giada Scodellaro Ruins, Child review and information about the novel by the Italian born American writer. Fitzcarraldo Editions will publish the Giada Scodellaro novel on March 26, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.
Giada Scodellaro Ruins, Child reviews
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- “Giada Scodellaro is one of the most astonishing writers of her generation and Ruins, Child is a visionary novel. Scodellaro refracts and redefines the canon of Black culture, the archive of Black experience. The result is a masterpiece that lives and breathes on the page, every sentence shimmering with wit, musicality, brilliance and verve.” (Katie Kitamura, author of Audition)
- “Ruins, Child reads like wild and textured wind, like seeds dispersed, like focus pulled then blossomed outwards, like bodies leaking, thumping, persisting, cleaving: together, then apart. This is a book of breath and people, of the precious metrics of language with all its lakes and tales that flows between and towards women. Giada Scodellaro has written fierce magic, wet earth, hot limbs; it is urgent and beautiful.” (Helen Marten, author of The Boiled in Between)
Ruins, Child
- Author: Giada Scodellaro (United States)
- Book type: American novel
- Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
- To be released: March 26, 2026
- Length: 176 pages
- Format: paperback / ebook
- Prize: £ 12.99
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Blurb of thet Giada Scodellaro novel
Set in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaro’s novel is like a precious old mirror: dropped, looking up at you, flashing light and bits of the undeniable.
With the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, but is entirely its own animal: kaleidoscopic, pointedly disorienting in its looseness, and powered along by snatches of speech from its compelling ensemble cast, often vernacular, often overheard.
It’s a book seemingly drawn from deep wells of Black American reality: Scodellaro’s female protagonists push back against authority in the very vivacity of their telling, setting afoot a freeing-up and a mysterious inversion of marginalization. A surreal musing, Ruins, Child uses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography and collective listening to create an ethnography of place and an ode to communal ruins.
Giada Scodellaro was born in Naples, Italy and raised in the Bronx, New York. Giada’s writings have appeared in the New Yorker, BOMB and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. Her debut collection, Some of Them Will Carry Me, was named one of the New Yorker’s best books of 2022.