Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe is the author of more than thirty works of poetry and prose, including Night Philosophy (Divided Publishing Ltd, 2020), What Did I Do Wrong (Flood Editions, 2009), and The Lives of Spirit/ Glasstown (Nightboat Books, 2005). Howe received the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation for lifetime achievement.
The Wages
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“‘FANNY HOWE’S NOVEL has the clarity and concision, and the narrative force, of a fable. And like all good fables, it’s endlessly complicated, a deceptively simple story wrapped in racial, historical, and economic ironies. It’s also a historical novel based on ‘true’ events—in the sense that Morrison’s Beloved is realistic and historical and based on a ‘true’ story. And like Beloved, The Wages is a profoundly moral tale. The Bible tells us that ‘the wages of sin is death ...’ (Romans 6:23), and in Howe’s telling, the sin, America’s originating sin, is the profit-making entanglement of race and slavery, whose tainted return, both economic and spiritual, is still being paid out today.””
