{"product_id":"mazywood-5142","title":"Mazywood - PREORDER","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePub Date: September 22, 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll the Sinners Bleed\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eErasure\u003c\/i\u003e in this literary thriller from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reformatory \u003c\/i\u003efollowing the grandson of a famous Black actress who returns to his grandmother's cabin retreat in the California mountains only to encounter the legacy of her rage born in Old Hollywood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This enthralling hybrid of showbiz history, supernatural mystery, and nail-biting adventure in the wild spins a chilling, enlightening, and ultimately heartrending saga...This feels perilously close to a career triumph for its author.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Johnny--a filmmaker and grandson of the famous Black actress Mazelle Washington--brings his family to Mazywood, the secluded California mountain lodge left behind by his grandmother, he expects a quiet retreat. Instead, he uncovers a legacy of rage, secrets, and terror that has haunted his family for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet primarily in the present day, with haunting flashbacks to Hollywood's Golden Age, \u003ci\u003eMazywood\u003c\/i\u003e explores three generations while following Johnny as he pieces together the true story of his grandmother. As a young Black actress whose career spanned from the 1920s to the 1940s, Mazelle brushed shoulders with giants like Lena Horne, Clark Gable, and Hattie McDaniel. But beneath her public appearance, she carried a secret she had kept and nurtured since she was a child, when a dark wish came true and changed the course of her life forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow, fifty years after Mazelle's death, Johnny finds himself confronting the truth she buried--and the consequences she left behind. For a monster lurks outside Mazywood, hidden for generations, and Johnny brought his family to its hunting grounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Tananarive Due\u003c\/b\u003e is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award­-winning author, who was an executive producer on \u003ci\u003eHorror Noire: A History of Black Horror\u003c\/i\u003e for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel \u003ci\u003eThe Keeper\u003c\/i\u003e and an episode for Season 2 of \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone \u003c\/i\u003efor Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, \u003ci\u003eGhost Summer: Stories \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Wishing Pool and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, \u003ci\u003eFreedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights\u003c\/i\u003e (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). Learn more at TananariveDue.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tananarive Due","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52765851943197,"sku":"9781668075142","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781668075142.jpg?v=1786738035","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/mazywood-5142","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}