Mistranslation, the debut novel by Madeleine Moss, follows twin sisters in upstate New York as childhood fractures into diverging identities shaped by family absence, cultural inheritance, and the arrival of a boy who unsettles both. Spanning years and continents, it traces how early misunderstandings calcify into lifelong tensions, asking what we inherit, what we misread, and what it costs to finally understand.
Mistranslation will be published on September 22, 2026, by University of Iowa Press and is available for preorder now.
Moss grew up in Ithaca, New York, and received a degree in French literature from Cornell University before obtaining her MFA in fiction from Washington University in St. Louis in 2020.
Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Mistranslation, designed by Kimberly Glyder, along with a Q&A with Moss about its creation.
Plus, see the covers that almost made the final cut.
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