Though I’ve known Kathe Koja for over thirty years, and I’ve been her agent for over twenty of them, she still surprises me with every project. (In truth, she surprises me with every email but let’s focus on her books.) Her earliest work was rightly published as horror fiction, and a half dozen of her titles in the early 2000s were clearly YA, but most of her amazing novels form genres unto themselves, illuminating liminal spaces and the strangely familiar people who occupy them.