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Sophie McManus was born in New York City and is a graduate of Vassar College and Sarah Lawrence College's MFA program. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Saltonstall Foundation, and the Jentel Foundation. Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction and Tin House, among other publications. The Unfortunates is her first book.
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Old Flame (2023)
Molly Prentiss
"Old Flame is amazing--a warmhearted and luminous page-turner about desire, time, love, parenthood, work, and art in women's lives. What a woman invents of herself, what the world demands she be, and the stories she tells to find her many selves across a lifetime are considered with both the scorching verve of Elena Ferrante and the frank humor of Maria Semple. This unforgettable book is a love letter to love itself, to how hard and wonderful life is, and to finding home, in all its thrilling, changing forms, ever mysterious and known."
A Lily in the Light (2019)
Kristin Fields
"Kristin Field’s powerful and poignant debut, A Lily in the Light, draws the reader deep into a young dancer’s journey through a tragedy that will haunt her into adulthood, revealing the subtle and fateful ways we create and dismantle illusions to force ourselves forward. Magical and gritty by turns, Esme’s story—of family and the search for self—is as radiant as it is unforgettable."
Gypsy Moth Summer (2017)
Julia Fierro
"Julia Fierro's second book is a luminous, urgent novel about the forces that shape us all: where we grow up; whether we are loved by our parents or understood by our peers; how class, power, and money may cast our fates. With gathering awe, I found in Avalon Island's richly depicted society a microcosm of our own. I rooted for the lovers at the thrumming heart of The Gypsy Moth Summer with the hungry turn of every page."
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