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Happy pub week to author @hafeezlakhani and ABUNDANCE! Two generations of a Muslim Indian family grapple with what parts of life we control and what we must humbly accept in pursuit of the American dream—for readers of Min Jin Lee, Mohsin Hamid, and Ayad Akhtar
In suburban Miami, sixty-year-old Sakeena—co-owner of a Dunkin’ franchise along with her husband, Ramzan—has nine months to live unless she consents to an organ transplant. Thirty years ago, at Ramzan’s behest, she left her beloved Rawalpindi, India, for the United States. In the years that followed, she compromised her belief in naseeb, the Muslim notion of destiny, and acquiesced to fertility treatments. This time, she is adamant that she should live as intended—without medical intervention. As her health deteriorates, Ramzan desperately seeks to reunite their grown children with the hope of convincing Sakeena to extend her life.

Cover reveal for FRIENDS written by Aurora Venturini (translated by @readinginbarsforeverafter). I was very happy to get to work with this perfect photograph by Sebastián Freire.
FRIENDS goes on sale on 12/8 and is available to preorder now.

About the book 📚
In a breathless, incantatory voice, FRIENDS tells the story of Yuna Riglos, a celebrated Argentine painter nearing the end of her life. From her apartment in La Plata, Yuna writes as she paints: obsessively, associatively, driven by memory rather than chronology. Fame has not delivered peace. Instead, it has sharpened her awareness of what art cannot redeem.

At the center of the book is Antonella, a teenage girl from the slums who enters Yuna’s life as a housekeeper and becomes something far more unsettling: muse, double, survivor, and moral reckoning. As Yuna shelters Antonella from an unspeakable past of hunger, violence, and incest, the novel probes the uneasy ethics of care, authorship, and representation. What does it mean to protect another person—and what does it mean to turn their suffering into art?

Threaded through the narrative are spectral presences from Argentine and European culture—Pizarnik, Lautréamont, Dante, Goya—figures of genius and despair who haunt Yuna’s imagination as both warning and justification. Friendship, especially between women, emerges as both refuge and trap, most painfully embodied in the fate of Yuna’s fellow artist Matilde du Pin.

By turns savage, tender, comic, and horrifying, this is a novel about beauty and monstrosity, class and cruelty, the body as archive, and the terrible persistence of memory. FRIENDS asks whether art can offer salvation—or whether it merely gives shape to what cannot be forgiven or undone.

#auroraventurini #bookstagram #coverreveal #indiepress #bookcommunityI was very happy to get to work with this perfect photograph by Sebastián Freire

Cover reveal for @rosesmithwrites’ forthcoming novel THE SHARED LIFE OF EGAN AND LUCIAN. This was the first cover designed for our @hawthorne_books list and what a book this is. I only wish it was releasing sooner so you all could read itthis summer near some body of water. There are some lovely easter eggs within the design for the reader. An epic, sweeping, and engrossing debut novel about twin brothers and their many loves and losses as they make a life on and away from their tiny family island off the coast of Maine

This one will hit bookstores on 11/3 and is available to preorder now 📚

🦞 Cover reveal🦞 Absolutely loved reading and designing the cover for @rarrsavage’s forthcoming novel THE RUINERS, a sexy, cerebral eco-thriller following a young couple who purchase a decrepit house on an environmentally ravaged Greek island, to disastrous personal and political consequences.

On sale 12/1 — available to preorder now!

Cover reveal for JEALOUSY written by Sarah Haas. An obsessive, propulsive memoir tracing jealousy’s arc through a relationship and investigating our darkest emotional impulses throughout the history of art, myth, photographic technology, and perception. Out from @catapult in November.

Happy pub day (yesterday) to BODY DOUBLE written by @www_sauvignon this Hitchcockian literary thriller, two women who fall in love and move in together begin to resemble each other, while elsewhere a young woman who works transcribing recordings for a ghostwriter receives a strange message that will come to upend her life.

🐜 It is cover reveal day for RED ANTS written by @kblaeser8 . What a treat to design this cover working with this beautiful painting by the late @jimdenomie
RED ANTS is available to preorder now and will go on sale officially on 10/20.

About the book 📚
Kimberly Blaeser’s singular stories center Anishinaabe characters who bring traditional tribal stories into contemporary experiences and break the stereotypes too often used to portray them. Here, we experience an Indigenous America inhabited by fancy dog contests, social protests, tree doctors, monsters, mosquitoes, and facial recognition software, all while blending, in the most exciting ways, the genre elements of magical realism, humor, horror, and speculative literary fiction.

At the heart of the collection is the story “Red Ants,” which opens on the rez between a jump rope chant and a test proctor’s smile, where two girls learn how easily a life can be reduced to numbers, and how quickly those numbers can tilt ordinary days into something mythic, unsettling, and deeply human. Blaeser delves into the complexities of kinship and survival, exploring how the smallest moments of cruelty or tenderness can shape generations.

For readers of NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ and CROOKED HALLELUJAH speaking to larger issues of race, culture, and history, RED ANTS explores alienation, displacement, and loneliness elevated through the precision of language, fierce emotional intelligence, and the haunting sense of place that permeates every page.

#coverreveal #shortstories #nativeamerican #anishinaabe #bookstagram

Thank you @casual_optimist 🙏🏼 (delayed post; grateful).

🪐 Cover reveal for @liekemarsman’s forthcoming memoir ON ANOTHER PLANET THEY CAN SAVE ME, with art by @cult.class!

In 2017, poet and novelist Lieke Marsman was diagnosed with a rare type of bone cancer. After being told her illness was incurable, Marsman embarks on an intellectual journey that challenges the limits of the rational, secular worldview she once trusted. As she undergoes radiotherapy, immunotherapy, and multiple surgeries—including the amputation of her arm—she turns to theology, philosophy, mythology, and science in an urgent quest for hope.

Marsman weaves the arguments of Christian thinkers with quantum physics, and the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein and William James with Greek mythology. Her research and reflection eventually transforms into an obsession with UFOs—and the manifold implications for us on Earth if life does, in fact, exist somewhere out there. She explores the possibility that meaning—or even salvation—might lie outside the boundaries of what we know. Extraterrestrial life becomes a poignant metaphor for faith itself: “When everything in the here and now turns out to be utterlyhopeless, I allow myselfto think: On another planet they can save me.”

The result is a poetic, philosophical, and fearless exploration of living with illness and death and nonetheless cultivating hope in the face of the unknown.

Thank you again @casual_optimist
@counterpointpress #rebeccakauffman #thereservation

Thank you again @casual_optimist
@counterpointpress #rebeccakauffman #thereservation

Thank you @literaryhub for featuring the cover for SECOND SKIN as 1 of 12 Best Book Covers of February. @catapult