Samantha Mabry's new novel is A Fierce and Subtle Poison. At Tor.com she tagged five books that carry curses, including:One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
Like [Junot Díaz's] Oscar Wao, this is another novel that features a generational curse, though the source of the curse can be specifically pin-pointed. Early in the story, one of the characters (Ursula’s mother)





