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Written by Hugo Award-winning author Alix E. Harrow, Starling House is a Southern Gothic speculative fiction novel about Opal, an impoverished woman trying to escape her prejudiced hometown with her brother. She becomes a housekeeper at the enigmatic Starling House, grows close to its mysterious inhabitant, Arthur, and uncovers the house's deep secrets. The book examines themes of truth, power, and choice. This text features discussions of enslavement, sexual assault, suicide, self-harm, domestic abuse, racism, sexism, classism, anti-gay bias, alcohol abuse, and violence.