ISBN TK (5” x 7”, 152 pp, paperback) | Novel
COMING SPRING 2025

Winner of the Holland Prize for Fiction

A story within a story that looks back on the future through the eyes of a Scheherazade dying of AIDS, who tells stories to stay alive within the walls of a city in the desert ruled by Hasan i Sabah and his harem of female assassins.

Praise for Kate Hunter:

“Hunter tosses Kafka and Markson into the spin cycle to create a vision entirely her own.”
—Elizabeth Crane, author of The History of Great Things

KATE HUNTER lives in Washington, DC with her son and their Tibetan Mastiff. Her novel The Dream Sequence was published by Impetus Press, and she has had pieces in Little Star and Poor Magazine. She has given readings in Chicago at the Sunday Salon reading series and in New York City at KGB, Housing Works Bookstore, and the Guerrilla Lit reading series.