Keija Parssinen is the author of THE RUINS OF US, which won a Michener-Copernicus Award. Raised in Saudi Arabia and Texas, she is a graduate of Princeton University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. Parssinen directs the Quarry Heights Writers' Workshop and lives in Missouri with her husband and son.

Books by Keija Parssinen

The Unraveling of Mercy Louis

by Keija Parssinen - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Evocative and unsettling, THE UNRAVELING OF MERCY LOUIS charts the downfall of one town’s golden girl while exploring the brutality and anxieties of girlhood in America.

The Ruins of Us

by Keija Parssinen