Xochitl Gonzalez Signs Up Two with FlatironMegan Lynch at Flatiron acquired North American rights to novelist and
Atlantic staff writer
Xochitl Gonzalez’s nonfiction debut,
Need/Blind, and a new novel,
Last Night in Brooklyn, from
Mollie Glick at Creative Artists Agency. The novel, per the publisher, finds a young woman entrenched in her neighborhood’s dark past, “laying bare the mounting tensions of class and identity at play in a rapidly gentrifying early 2000s Fort Greene, Brooklyn.” Publication is set for next April.
Need/Blind, based on Gonzalez’s
Atlantic newsletter of the same name, will, the publisher said, “examine our current cultural moment by weaving reporting and historical research alongside her own lived experiences as a person who has traversed several socioeconomic classes.” No publication date has been announced.
More New Book Deals of NoteAmong this week’s offerings are
Douglas Stuart’s
John of John, a portrait of a close-knit community and a fraying family following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home; a new novel by
Lisa Barr, tentatively titled
Dirt Bitch, following a graffiti artist with a secret identity and a rogue CIA agent, who join forces to hunt down an elusive terrorist hired by neo-Nazis to settle a WWII score now—utilizing art as a weapon of deception; and
The Real Lives of Serial Killer Wives and three other thrillers by
Jeneva Rose, who has moved over to William Morrow.
The Latest in Children’s and YA DealsNew projects this week include
The Second Greatest Thief by
Christine Cohen, a debut middle-grade novel in which a 13-year-old girl in New York’s thieving guild signs up for a high-stakes airship heist, only to discover that her older brother—the city’s greatest thief—is going for the same prize;
The Siren’s Kiss by
Leslie Vedder, a YA sapphic mermaid and pirate enemies-to-lovers romantasy in which Rayleigh, a pirate captain looking to free herself from her cursed ship, enlists the help of a fiery mermaid; and
Oh, My Affogato! by
Daphne Ang and
Donna Ghorbanpoor, a romp through the Amalfi Coast pitched as a love letter to 2000s rom-coms featuring a boy-crazy teen as she tries to plot her way into something real with her on-again, off-again situationship.
Michelle Obama Returns to Crown
