The novel is about Reginald “Ox” Lorde, a Black Jamaican American sanitation worker in New York who dreams of becoming a novelist. It is framed as a manifesto-memoir written after everything has collapsed: Ox wants to tell the truth about sanitation work, friendship, labor, ambition, publishing, guilt, and the dreams people are told to abandon. […]
Dated is a contemporary comic-social novel about Sophie Gabelman, a young Jewish progressive communications worker in New York, and her grandmother Irene Gabelman, an elderly Jewish widow in North Carolina who becomes obsessed with finding Sophie a Jewish husband. It tries to combine political satire, dating comedy, family novel, Jewish identity drama, post-October-7 moral crisis, […]
Never Breathe Easy is a political family thriller about Argentina’s Dirty War, exile, journalism, guilt, stolen children, false identities and the way historical violence keeps echoing through generations. It moves between Buenos Aires in the 1970s, Mexico and New York in exile, Rome in the 1980s and 1990s, and an Umbrian farmhouse where the buried […]
Don’t You Miss It is a grief novel about four college best friends — Lisa, Vera, Hannah and June — and what happens to the three survivors after Lisa dies in a freak accident during senior week. It is about female friendship as a first great love, the guilt of surviving, the lies friends tell […]
Like People in Novels is a literary mystery, childhood friendship story, delayed romance and love letter to libraries, Edith Wharton, New York City and the private myths people build around books. It moves between 1993, 1999, 2008 and 2009, following three main figures whose lives are permanently altered by one glittering object: Edith Wharton’s diamond-studded […]
The Do-Not-Do is an adult horror novel about creativity, embodiment, artificial intelligence, rule-following, loneliness, and the violence of being forbidden to do the very thing you exist to do. It begins like a surreal escape-room nightmare and gradually reveals itself as a metafictional allegory about human creativity being captured, stored, analyzed, and replaced. The narrator […]
Miracle Cures is a sharp, anxious, very funny novel about fact-checking, wellness culture, hypochondria, media precarity, parasocial obsession, and the human hunger for a cure that will make life finally begin. Its narrator is Nelly Corrigan, a young freelance fact-checker at a giant Manhattan media company, working on a glossy new wellness magazine built around […]
The Wreckers is a sprawling historical-adventure novel, mock-archive, slave-trade epic, pirate story, war satire, prison-break caper, ghost story, and metafictional meditation on how violence repeats across generations. It begins with documents and artifacts, then keeps widening until Angola, Mozambique, Cuba, Louisiana, Portugal, the Atlantic slave trade, Jean Lafitte, Hurricane Andrew, Angola Prison, and the Angolan […]
Darlene is a novel about teaching, Black girlhood, shame, language, care, failure, and the difficulty of giving young people freedom without leaving them unprotected. It is set in Camden, New Jersey, in the 1980s, and centres on Darlene LeJay, an older Black teacher who takes a substitute position at the Shipman School for Girls after […]
Reclamation is a tense social thriller about class, masculinity, technology, land, art, resentment and birth. It takes place during an impossible late-spring snowstorm in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where a wealthy tech exile and his pregnant artist wife become trapped in their expensive modern house while local men with old claims to the land circle […]