US EDITION 12/01/2026

ECCO/HarperCollins

“A gritty and unsparing portrait of a snow-blasted wonderland painted with exquisite tenderness and generosity. A magnificent novel and an unforgettable debut.”
—Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son and The Wayfinder

“A moving, atmospheric portrayal of small-town America. What an impressive debut!”
—Tracy Chevalier, author of The Glassmaker and Girl with a Pearl Earring

“A novel that searches in the most honest ways for redemption and does it with such confidence and control. A rare novel that is both unflinching and tender, a wondrous debut by a major talent.”
—Kevin Wilson, author of Run for the Hills and Nothing to See Here

“A beautiful story about luck and friendship in small-town America, and how no one is quite what they seem. I loved it.”
—Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground and Bitter Orange

“Winter Song is full of wisdom and grace and humor, and it raises essential questions about justice and forgiveness and love—the history we’ve been assigned, the future we choose.”
—Benjamin Percy, author of The Sky Vault and Red Moon

“It’s extraordinary how much compassion is packed into these pages. Morales’s exploration of one man's attempt to reclaim his future by redefining his past is absorbing and nuanced, and her portrait of the community that will either accept him or not feels expansive and true. This—this right here—is what people mean when they say that the characters and the places in a novel feel real. Winter Song may be set amid the cold and revolve around a death, but it vibrates with warmth and with life.”
—Cristina Henríquez, author of The Great Divide