Lucy Ives

Manhattan, 2014. It's an unseasonably warm Thursday in November and Erin Adamo is locked out of her apartment. Her husband has just left her and meanwhile her keys are in her coat, which she abandoned at her parents' apartment when she exited mid-dinner after her father—once again—lost control....

A witty, urbane, and sometimes shocking debut novel, set in a hallowed New York museum, in which a co-worker's disappearance and a mysterious map change a life forever Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her...

Somewhere in the Midwest, Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired, statuesque, charismatic) has recently been accepted to America’s most prestigious creative-writing program for his excellence in poetry. Loudermilk, however, has never written a poem in his life....