Contemporary stories about history and mystery and queer of color love…
Photo: Alexa Nikol Curran
Cover reveal for Lush Lives!
“The first three books from Roxane Gay’s imprint have been announced” (Lithub)
Lush Lives is on the lists!
Lush Lives
Coming from Roxane Gay Books & Grove Atlantic on August 1, 2023…
For Glory, inheriting her Great Aunt Lucille’s Harlem brownstone feels like more of a curse than a blessing. As a an introverted artist struggling to find gallery representation, she doesn’t have the money or time to look after the house of a woman who never liked her anyway. But Glory’s legacy starts to feel more hopeful when it leads her to Parkie de Groot, a savvy and driven appraiser at a Manhattan auction house who is on the verge of a coveted promotion if she plays her cards right. Opposites on paper, Glory and Parkie form an unlikely alliance, partnering to unearth the origins of a rare manuscript long hidden in the brownstone’s attic. Along the way they learn more than they could have imagined about ambition and compromise—discovering that history repeating itself might not always be a bad thing.
cover design: Rodrigo Corral Studio
"New York’s the lonesomest place in the world if you don’t know anybody.”
— Nella Larsen, Passing
What’s Bromley College got to hide??
The Groves
For readers of campus novels by Tartt and McCarthy and denizens of the dark academy from Riverdale to Real Life…
Returning for her senior year after time abroad, New Yorker Daphne Howard just wants to make it to graduation. She’s still processing the sting of her social circle moving off-campus under the thrall of Serena Vigil, a talented poet from Texas who happens to be Daphne’s nemesis. But when a gruesome story overheard at a local bar leads Daphne to consider an unusual artifact discovered on campus in a new light, friends, lovers, and others unite to confront the collision of present and past, political and personal.
The Groves introduces listeners to an unforgettable ensemble of characters: a college-hopping drifter whose journalistic instincts drive the group’s investigation; a Virginia equestrienne turned intersectional feminist; the only Black lesbian majoring in art history—and more—make up this eclectic, sharp-witted cast. Through the shocks and revelations of one momentous year, these bright twenty-somethings on the cusp of independence fall in and out of love, make plans and change course, and learn from each other what it means to be yourself.
“What I recall best about myself as a child under six is a passionate love of beauty, which was almost a kind of violence.”
— Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood