Wake the Wild Creatures

Cover art for Wake the Wild Creatures

Nova Ren Suma

2025

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

"Wake the Wild Creatures is a ferocious expression of girlhood, of its seething potential, its most wild and secret places, from one of our greatest and most inimitably talented authors writing today. This is an urgent, important, and timely outing that must not be missed and Nova Ren Suma's particular brand of magic has earned a place alongside—and is perfect for fans of—the works of Shirley Jackson, Joyce Carol Oates, and Kelly Link."—Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie and The Project

"Mesmerizing and fierce, vivid and dreamlike, Wake the Wild Creatures is Nova Ren Suma's finest novel yet. I was enraptured from the first page to the last. Rarely has a novel made me think so deeply and so much about the confines of our lives and the expansive possibilities that might await us should we choose to trust our intuition and our own power to decide."—Nina LaCour, bestselling author of Watch Over Me and We Are Okay

"A luminous, hard-eyed stare of a book, Wake the Wild Creatures kicks open the cage girls are born into, and casts a powerful spell of rage and hope from which I emerged blinking and reluctant, wrapped in wistful magic, and longing for the forest. Nova Ren Suma can write."—​​​​​​​Laini Taylor, author of Strange the Dreamer and Daughter of Smoke and Bone