Blockbuster is a contemporary Hollywood romance about Eliza Everwood, an ambitious indie filmmaker who does not believe in love stories, despite being the daughter of beloved romance novelist Diane Everwood. Eliza’s mother has built her life and career on happy endings, but Eliza has watched Diane be hurt repeatedly by unreliable men, including Eliza’s father, […]
Percival Everett’s Serious Music follows Arthur Champion, a Black American musician, composer and former conservatory student, through war, racial terror, political conspiracy, exile and artistic recovery. The novel begins with Arthur declaring a philosophy of music: Black music is not merely rhythm, not merely folk expression, not an inferior offshoot of European harmony. It has […]
The novel is set primarily in Kingston, Jamaica, during the late 1990s, a period marked by political violence, gang control of inner-city communities, and deep distrust between ordinary citizens, criminals, and the police. The novel follows several intersecting characters whose lives revolve around one question: what does it mean to disappear in a society where […]
The Unknown unfolds through the perspective of Marin Keane, a struggling, largely anonymous actress whose life abruptly changes when she is cast in her first feature film. Marin has spent years hovering on the margins of success, defined by small theatrical roles and a humiliating pharmaceutical commercial, and she carries deep insecurities about her talent, […]
Red Life is an intense, confessional novel that follows Nina, a thirty-nine-year-old American woman who deliberately leaves her marriage and her life in New York to spend a summer in Paris, convinced that she is not falling apart but acting with intention. From the outset, Nina insists on framing her departure not as a loss […]
Rose is a 39-year-old single mother living in the desert town of Tecopa, California. Five years have passed since she divorced her husband, relinquished primary custody of her daughter Juniper, and returned to the place where she was raised by an alcoholic, emotionally absent mother. The story takes place a few years after the Covid-19 […]
The novel follows several intense summer days in Portland, Oregon, narrated by Claire Fererro, a thirty-something freelance political speechwriter whose professional and personal life are both in flux. The novel unfolds against the backdrop of a record-breaking heat wave, wildfire smoke, and mounting climate anxiety, using these pressures to explore intimacy and the shape of […]
The novel follows Billie Nolan, a successful fertility specialist living in New York City. She grew up in a small town in Wisconsin and has built a demanding, carefully structured adult life far from home. At the beginning of the novel, Billie is engaged to Dean, a trauma surgeon from a wealthy Hamptons family. Their […]
The novel is narrated by Suzanna, who recounts her childhood growing up in the orbit of a women’s prison where her mother is incarcerated. The story unfolds from Suzanna’s early childhood through the year her grandfather dies and the months that follow, focusing on how she learns to live with separation, loyalty, and permanence. The […]
The story follows an unnamed woman in her late twenties or early thirties living in New York, trying to move on from a long-ended but emotionally unresolved relationship with her college boyfriend, Liam. The novel begins when Liam unexpectedly texts her after nearly six years of silence. His first message is not romantic or apologetic […]