In the US, Tangerine, Christine Mangan’s debut novel, is published by Harper Collins, and in the UK by Little, Brown. The book has strong Gothic influences and you can feel them while reading the story. Of course, the fact that Christine Mangan loves reading Gothic crime fiction and psychological thrillers also seeped into her debut novel. While Gothic has huge and dark haunted castles, the author replaced those with Tangier’s streets and buildings. She only submitted the manuscript for Tangerine a few months after she got her Ph.D., and her focus on the Gothic genre was still there. In an interview, the author herself admits that gothic literature was on her mind when she created Tangerine. The book went to auction, which Harper Collins won. The book sparked the start of a bid war in the US with 20 publishers fighting for it.

In the next four months, the original manuscript, which was told from three points of views (Alice, Lucy and a policeman), transformed its final draft to be merely told from Alice and Lucy’s POV.

When Christine Mangan sent her manuscript to publishers, she has just started working in Dubai as a teacher at a university. This is the very place that sparked the creation of the book with the same name, which would become Christine Mangan’s debut novel. While she didn’t stay long there, after a few years, in 2015, she returned to Tangier once again. She first went to Marrakech, and then she took a train to Tangier. One of her long-time dreams was to go to Morocco, which she did during those years. in English from the University College Dublin with a thesis focusing on 18th-century Gothic literature.ĭuring her stay in Europe, she traveled to several countries. She also worked as a Gazette Chicago reporter from 2005 to 2007.Īfter that, she moved to Dublin in Ireland to get her Ph.D. She continued living in Chicago while she got her MFA from the University of Southern Maine. Next, she moved back to the Midwest to Chicago where she attended the Columbia College Chicago to graduate with her Batchelor’s degree. She lived on Long Island and in North Carolina, following which he attended Bennington College for a year. The American debut author Christine Mangan was born in Detroit, Michigan, she led a nomadic life for quite a long time.

Tangerine by christine mangan summary