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Book clubs
By video, two a month, first come first served — thirty minutes of questions and no preparation required of you. In person when the club is within a train ride of Brooklyn.
New novel · 4 March 2027
Last Light Over Brooklyn
A novel about three siblings, one summer, and the version of a life that almost happened.
01The booksHarbor & Lane
Three novels, ten years.
All published by Harbor & Lane. Foreign editions and audio via my agent.
Last Light Over Brooklyn
Harbor & LaneNewAudiobook2027Halflight
Harbor & LaneThe strange one2019The Quiet Year
Harbor & LaneDebut2017Selected essays
Various magazinesEssays2012–
On tour
The spring readings
Free unless marked. Signed copies at every stop while they last; the launch always sells out first.
- MAR 042027BrooklynMarginalia Books · Launch night · reading + signing lineSold out
- MAR 122027ManhattanThe Hollow Reading Room · In conversation with Ada Ferris · ticket includes the bookSelling fastRSVP
- MAR 222027BostonCliffside Books · The sibling chapters, read with my actual sibling presentFree entryRSVP
- APR 082027LondonFoxglove Books · UK launch · with essayist June Okafor
- APR 192027EdinburghThe Old Assembly · Festival appearance · panel of three
- MAY 022027PortlandRain & Reader · Final stop · afternoon reading, all agesFree entryRSVP
“A writer who understands that every family is an unreliable narrator. The last thirty pages are as good as anything this decade.”
The Coastal Review
On "Last Light Over Brooklyn"
02InvitationsTwo book clubs a month
What I say yes to.
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School + library visits
Secondary and up. A reading, a conversation about how a book actually gets made, and an hour of questions that are always better than the adults'.
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Festivals + panels
Booked through the publisher a season ahead. Happy to be the person on the panel who has read the other books.
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Bulk + signed orders
Signed copies and bookplates for shops, clubs and conferences, arranged through Marginalia Books. Give six weeks for anything over fifty copies.
03New here?An honest reading order
Where to start.
The Quiet Year
Start here. The shortest, the warmest, and the one people hand to their mothers.
Halflight
The strange middle child. Read it at night; it was written at night and it shows, in the best way.
Last Light Over Brooklyn
The new one — and the reason the first two exist. Ten years of circling this story until it sat still.
04Most answered by my agent
Press, rights, visits
- Review copies?
- Press and booksellers: request through the contact form with your outlet or shop name. Galleys ship from January.
- Will you visit our book club?
- By video, happily — I do two a month, first come first served. In person when the club is within a train ride of Brooklyn.
- Translation + film rights?
- All rights inquiries go through my agent, Nell Abrams — her details come with any reply to a rights email here.
- Do you read unpublished manuscripts?
- I can't — for legal reasons and for time reasons, in that order. The essay on the newsletter about first drafts is the useful thing I can offer instead.
Out March 4. Pre-order now.
Pre-orders are the whole ballgame for a book's first week — and signed copies come from Marginalia Books while they last.
Hardcover, ebook, and audio — narrated by the author
Press + speaking
Interviews, festivals, school visits, book clubs. For rights, ask for my agent's details.
- studio@example.com
- Nell Abrams — via the form
- Brooklyn, NY