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Emma Sloley is the author of the novels DISASTER'S CHILDREN and THE ISLAND OF LAST THINGS, forthcoming from Flatiron Books in 2025.

Her fiction and creative non-fiction has appeared in Catapult, Literary Hub, Joyland, The Common, and the Masters Review Anthology, among many others. She is a MacDowell fellow and a Bread Loaf scholar.

Born in Australia, Emma now divides her time between California and the city of Mérida, Mexico. For more info visit www.emmasloley.com

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	The Island of Last Things 3.43 avg rating — 3,121 ratings — published 2025 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disaster's Children 3.13 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Masters Review Volume VII by Rebecca Makkai (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Emma Sloley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Rebekah Bergman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“My generation, we're like animals born in captivity: we accept the state of things because it's pretty much all we've ever known. Sailor was old enough to have experienced a better world. And that knowledge was a sadness she could never shake.”
― Emma Sloley, The Island of Last Things

tags: acceptance, accepting, generational-differences, generational-divide, generations, sadness, understanding

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“If her years at the zoo had taught her anything, it was that no creature was as dangerous as a man being laughed at.”
― Emma Sloley, The Island of Last Things

tags: animals, creatures, danger, humiliation, laughing-at, laughter, masculinity, men, zoos

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“Everyone starts off enthusiastic but then, I don't know. They just sort of give up."

Sailor nodded. "I saw it in Paris too. That doomer mentality. It's a virus that takes hold when a generation feels like there's no future.”
― Emma Sloley, The Island of Last Things

tags: being-jaded, doom, enthusiasm, giving-up, hopelessness

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