The Bird's Nest is a macabre journey into who we are, and how close we sometimes come to the brink of madness.
Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story, 'The Lottery', was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.
The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... It is a
place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that
is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming,
of things taking a turn for the worse
*A. M. Homes*
Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of
beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders
*Dorothy Parker*
Shirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic, inimitable
writers ... whose work exerts an enduring spell
*Joyce Carol Oates*
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