Top New Release Books for Creatives November 2026

In Lumina Station, her first book since the acclaimed Astoria, Malena Mörling reflects on impermanence, perception, and the inexplicable beauty of being. Enthralled by the idea of the single continuous moment, Mörling’s inimitable images–storefront mannequins, an aviary of light, forests walking straight out to the cliffs–render the fleeting moments of our lives with cinematic precision.

“The world is magic,” Mörling asserts early in the book, and the pages of Lumina Station work to prove this claim over its course, engaging the mystery of the everyday with quiet wonder as meetings unfold in dreams and laundromats, on trains, and at the edge of a quarry where the speaker confronts language and time–“the invisible translator of what occurs.”

Like spiral staircases, the poems stretch between the physical and metaphysical, spinning narratives that chart the connections between what we see and feel. Throughout, Mörling considers what it is to make meaning of a life–to live inside the question, rather than its answer: “Why don’t I leap / from the edge / of what I know?”

In Ghost Woman, Crystal Simone Smith explores the long and deep connections between nature, personhood, ancestry, and trauma through haiku and haibun. Separated into five sections, the poems emphasize the way social bonds and landscapes are reflected in and through the environment.

Smith brings her experiences with race, motherhood, and poetry into conversation with the five elements, Wind (fu), Earth (chi), Water (sui), Fire (ka), and Void (ku) to take readers through an introspective haiku journey, an exploration of the nature of the self as well as the nature of the broader world.

Balancing shattering grief with ordinary moments of love and trauma with survival, Ghost Woman weaves a narrative verse of single motherhood, bearing witness, and carrying your history with you. The poems in Ghost Woman invite readers to be with nature and themselves more intentionally.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Robin Wall Kimmerer, Invitation to Listen: The Poetry of Plain, Air is a poetic and practical guide that reimagines how we listen to nature.

In English with Potawatomi translation by Justin Neely, this lyrical, multilingual text invites us to reconnect with the vibrant world around us: the crickets calling in our neighborhoods, the birds flying overhead, and the ground supporting us each day.

Kimmerer illustrates a form of attention that engages all of our senses in a practice of listening.

Crafted in response to composer Tonia Ko’s Plain, Air–a six-movement piece inspired by Lake Michigan and performed by Chicago’s Spektral Quartet–Kimmerer’s meditative writings weave through the movements of Ko’s score.

Accessible online, a recording of Plain, Air is a companion to the book.

Invitation to Listen: The Poetry of Plain, Air is an invitation to slow down, take notice of our surroundings, engage with our senses, and listen to the voices of lives everywhere. What could happen, Kimmerer entreats, if we listened deeply every day?

With pages for notes, this beautifully designed, field guide-sized book can easily travel with the reader, serving as a tool for wonder, attention, and our collective listening practices.

“The anthology dares to hold the face of this country, its long history and structural realities, for the possibility of a new kind of existence.”—E. J. Koh, author of The Liberators and The Magical Language of Others

Uncertain Girls in Uncertain Times is a luminous collection blending poetry, reflection, and intergenerational conversation that offers young women the courage to trust themselves, embrace uncertainty, and step boldly into adulthood.

Uncertain Girls in Uncertain Times is an anthology that encourages young women launching into adulthood to imagine deeply, create bravely, and find the confidence to build a meaningful life in this uncertain and chaotic world. Each one of the forty contributors brings their voice and experience to reflect on a poem that has held particular significance in their life, sharing words of wisdom, vulnerable admissions, and life lessons. Reflections range from practical advice to philosophical musings, from stories of triumph to somber tellings of the tougher days, while the selected poems fill in the gaps, offering access to invaluable, timeless wisdom. Interwoven between the poems and essays are snippets of conversation between a mother and her daughter, who is beginning her own launch into adulthood, held over the course of a year.

Enrique Lihn is among the most important Chilean poets, alongside Nicanor Parra, since the generation of Gabriela Mistral, Vicente Huidobro, and Pablo Neruda. Lihn’s first two poetry books represented here–Nada se escurre (Nothing Slips Away), 1949, and Poemas de este tiempo y de otro (Poems of This Time and Another), 1955–introduce his dark, lyric genius and existential intensity.

These works sounded the clarion call announcing that a new voice had been born within the rich and unrestrained tradition of Chilean poetry. This current volume contains a marvelous selection of Lihn’s pioneering early work, translated exquisitely by Jonathan Cohen and David Unger, and introduced by the Chilean writer and Lihn scholar Roberto Brodsky.

The True Artist Breaks Out of Jail is a provocative collaboration between Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri and renowned artist Rosemary Clunie. Pushing the possibilities of text and image to their limit, this book addresses questions of life in our times through the potent energies of poetry and painting. It journeys into the human spirit and its yearning for truth and authenticity as it examines key contemporary subjects ranging from war and climate change to the wounds and wonders of the human psyche.

Exploring the modern world through a joint creative output, Okri and Clunie strive to inspire a richer relationship to art and to democratize the art experience–marrying the mystery of image with the accessibility of language. Combining autobiographical elements with fragments of fiction, Okri and Clunie appeal to the two ancient aspects of brain and spirit in all of us. The result is a thoughtful and powerful interpretation of our world by two important voices in our current discourse.

Blood on the Leaves by Hope Wabuke is a searing and lyrical poetry collection that explores the intimate, haunted relationship between Blackness and the natural world.

At once a site of refuge and rupture, nature emerges as both witness to generational trauma and a space of beauty, survival, and fierce possibility.

Hewn from historical record and personal experience, these poems unearth the brutal legacy of slavery and the enduring persistence of systemic racism, tracing how violence echoes through land, body, and bloodline. Wabuke weaves history, science, and the environment into the personal–examining gender, motherhood, identity, and the Black body as sites of resistance and remembrance.

Blood on the Leaves stands as a powerful testament to the Black experience, survival, memory, and the enduring power of love.

Inspired by his experience starting Solar Punk Farms and studying the resilience of living systems, biologist Spencer R. Scott helps us envision our collective future in a more hopeful way.

In an age of ecological emergency and social breakdown, how do we find the hope and determination to live on this planet as if we were staying?

Inspired by the solarpunk movement’s insistence that our vision of the future must be galvanizing, biologist and environmentalist Spencer R. Scott chronicles his journey from biotech research to the co-founding of the queer regenerative community and education hub, Solar Punk Farms. Weaving memoir and scientific inquiry, Scott reframes capitalism as an environment we’ve unconsciously adapted to in order to survive and documents the internal and external process of re-adapting to the realities of our ecological world. Only through community and collective action, he finds, can we make survival–and joy–beyond capitalism possible.

Bridging science and personal experience with optimism and lyricism, As If We Were Staying is an invitation to meet our precarious reality together and begin building a future worth inhabiting.

If Gollum, Caesar and Ulysses Klaue could hear Andy Serkis tell his story, would they choose him to play them? This is the question at the heart of his long-awaited memoir.

Beginning in a childhood split between Ruislip and Baghdad, Andy Serkis takes us – and his characters – on a journey through the early influences that shaped him: acting mentors, early roles at a regional repertory theatre, a passion for mountaineering, a desire for film-making and the love story with Lorraine Ashbourne that became the foundation of his life. Then, the call arrives in 1999 that changes everything. Peter Jackson is preparing to make The Lord of the Rings and Andy is asked to audition for the voice of a certain animated character.

What follows is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes journey through the fantastical worlds Andy has helped shape – The Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes, Black Panther, Star Wars and more – as he pioneered a new form of performance that would forever redefine the possibilities of cinema.

In this book, Andy invites us into a genre-defying conversation between actor and character, imagination and reality, and provides an answer to the question: what would Andy’s most iconic characters make of the man that brought them to life?

The legendary actor behind Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Reading Rainbow shares never-before-told stories from a life that has shaped generations in this “compassionate, vulnerable memoir” (Time). “LeVar Burton’s reverence, respect, and complete understanding of the power of story permeates this intimate weaving of his own life’s narrative threads. The tapestry created depicts a man in full–spiritual seeker, literacy educator, artistic explorer, social justice warrior, and conscious human.”–Noah Wyle

This is my attempt to pull back the curtain. Not just on the roles I’ve played, but on the life I’ve lived. The fears. The fight. The survival. And yes, the joy. All of it.

Tracing the different eras of his life–from Kunta Kinte to Geordi La Forge to Reading Rainbow and far beyond the camera–celebrated actor LeVar Burton fearlessly opens up about growing up during the Civil Rights Movement, being raised by a remarkable mother, and discovering his calling as a storyteller. He explores how acting has served as both a source of transformation and an escape from the most difficult parts of his past, while also confronting the challenges of being a parent, husband, and householder.

As Burton honors the loved ones whose strength and resilience shaped him in this inspiring memoir, he also asks what we owe to our ancestors and to each other, reflecting on the deep necessity he’s always felt advocating for liberation and equity. Generous, deeply moving, and illustrated with personal family photos, Take My Word For It is a courageous self-portrait of an iconic artist.

Careers change. Relationships end. Plans collapse. Sometimes we choose to change our lives; sometimes life makes the choice for us.

Can You Rollerskate? is the book you need when you’re standing between the life you know and the life you haven’t figured out yet.

Blending candid memoir with practical guidance and stories of real people who have reinvented themselves in extraordinary ways, Lisa shows you how to uncover your transferable strengths, rethink limiting assumptions, build meaningful relationships, and take purposeful action amid uncertainty.

Lisa Morris has been a Broadway performer, entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, finance executive-and, at various points, someone with absolutely no idea what she was doing. That may be her greatest qualification for writing this book.

Through tales of hilarious mishaps, painful setbacks, and unlikely opportunities, Can You Rollerskate? will inspire you to show up, say yes, and start moving-even when you don’t feel ready.

Profits From This Book Go To Support Animal Rescue and Veterans

They may be the author of the #1 most banned book in America, but George M. Johnson isn’t finished telling their story yet. Written with unflinching emotion and unapologetic boldness, And If I Die Before I Wake is nothing short of a testimony — one the world desperately needs to hear.

George M. Johnson is no stranger to death. In this debut adult memoir, readers are invited to witness untrodden ground as George navigates an HIV diagnosis, alcoholism, tremendous loss, and nationwide book bans over the span of 15 years. Through the highs and lows of life in the spotlight, they have clung to family and community like never before — finding their most authentic self along the way.

Drawing inspiration from Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, And If I Die Before I Wake explores grief, trauma, sexuality, and the Black family through the lens of transformation, healing, and hope. Poetic, grounded, and bursting with signature humor, this is New York Times-bestselling author George M. Johnson more bold, more brave, and more daring than ever — ready to share a new part of their journey with the world.

Meticulously crafted and unflinchingly vulnerable, Nicole R. Fleetwood’s multigenerational family portrait braids the intimate life of a neighborhood with the historic arc that shaped it to offer an untold story of the black Midwest.

In 1973, Hamilton, Ohio, was a mill town so typical it prided itself on being quintessentially American. In harder times, it proved to be a bellwether. Here, young Nicole is born into a fourth-generation household in the Second Ward, a segregated neighborhood between the river and the railroad tracks.

In this tight-knit community, most of Nicole’s neighbors are like her relatives: large, intergenerational families a few decades up from the South. They build their own institutions, create music with global influence, and uphold a code of conduct centered around safety and belonging.

But the legacy of slavery and the entrenched racism of the Midwest cast a shadow over the Second Ward. The Fleetwoods bear their struggles as an ancestral curse, one that dooms their menfolk and burdens their women. The family lore echoes in Nicole’s earliest memories.

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“Could any biographer have been better suited to this gargantuan undertaking?” –The New York Times, on Gerald Martin’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life

The long-awaited biography of Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize-winning literary colossus and debonair provocateur whose contradictory life is rendered here in astounding detail.

By the time he died in April 2025, the Peruvian novelist and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa was internationally renowned and celebrated, considered to be perhaps the greatest contemporary writer and most influential intellectual in the Spanish-speaking world. He was also indisputably the most controversial: He was never out of the headlines in more than six decades of literary and political activity, from the moment he exploded onto the cultural scene in the early 1960s with his first novel, The Time of the Hero, until his last, I Give You My Silence, in 2023.

At first a self-declared socialist, he changed his mind about the meaning of “freedom,” made the long march through ideologies, and renounced collectivism of every kind until ending up a provocative supporter of Reaganite neoliberalism. At 19 he married an aunt, then replaced her with a teenage first cousin a decade later, only to abandon her in scandalous fashion after 50 years in favor of the most glamorous socialite in post-Franco Spain. He knocked his friend and rival Gabriel García Márquez to the ground with the most famous punch in literary history in 1976, came within a whisker of the presidency of Peru in 1990, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. Handsome, debonair, and almost incomparably ambitious, Vargas Llosa’s personal life was as head-turning as his politics, rendered here in outrageous detail.

A guide to getting (and staying) unblocked

Every artist–or aspiring creator–knows the sting of being stuck. Blasting Through Blocks is a “good news” book: yes, you will find yourself in its pages. You’ll recognize the resistance, the internal critic, the fear of failure, the perfectionism, the inertia. But the promise here is simple: you can always unblock. You don’t need grand methods or deep dives into theory–just the willingness to work with small, powerful tools.

Across 52 essays, you’ll encounter one creative block and one practical practice each week. Some tools will feel familiar–rooted in The Artist’s Way heritage–but many will surprise you with their straightforwardness, their clarity, their freshness. Over time, these practices build into a living, flexible toolkit you can revisit whenever you feel stuck again.

This is a book for personal pilgrimage and communal practice alike. Use it as a companion through a year of your creative life. Bring it to your writing group or your classroom. Gift it to any artist in your life. As these pages light up one shadow at a time, you’ll begin to see the spiritual and psychological pathways through your creative difficulties–and rediscover why your work matters.

“A rich history” (Esquire UK) of writing, thought, and culture through the story of the pen and its integral role in shaping our lives into the twenty-first century–from New York Times bestselling author Simon Garfield “A paean to the pen–glorious and golden.” — Emma Thompson, two-time Academy Award-winning actor and writer

The pen has been with us for millennia. Many beloved authors had their preferred instruments–Jane Austen and Dickens wrote their novels with hundreds of quills, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Graham Greene favored a Parker Duofold, Ernest Hemingway used both a Montblanc and a Montegrappa, and Stephen King calls his Waterman Hemisphere ‘the world’s finest word processor.’ It was the pen that signed the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, and the agreements at the Yalta Conference. The history of the pen is the history of civilization; the technology of intellect itself. Within the mechanics of ink chambers, springs, and ballpoint tips lies the history of ideas–from the faintest notion to the wildest invention–and of the oldest tangible connection between an individual mind and anyone in the world who can read its creations.

In this expansive history, beloved author Simon Garfield delivers an enthralling look at society through the evolution of our favorite writing tool. Garfield takes readers on a trek across time and place, from the home of the calamus reed pens along the banks of the Nile in the fourth century BC; to the factory floor at Montblanc and Bic; to the Apple Pencils we use today. We meet the pioneers behind various iterations of the pen, such as Joseph Priestley, who was among the first to affix a steel tip to a quill in 1780; Bartholomew Folsch, who created the early reservoir pen in 1809; and Milton Reynolds, who introduced the world to the first (and very leaky) ballpoint pen.

Written with Garfield’s unique narrative flair and drawing on a wealth of historical research and original interviews, The Pen makes a case for why this most important instrument is an indelible marker of our shared culture and how it continues to shape the way we live in the digital age.

A revelatory and wildly entertaining chronicle of polyamory, from PEN/America Award winner, Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea.

In recent years, polyamory has become a topic of fascination for the general public, but it has long enjoyed a great deal of popularity in many subcultures formerly deemed “underground” or “alternative.” Having been a member of these communities for years, Michelle Tea explores the complexity, beauty and affirmation of this practice with candor, humor, and deep appreciation. Combining her prodigious skills as a storyteller, deep research, and the kind of gonzo reporting that has earned her scores of dedicated readers, Tea takes us into the lives and hearts of those who are creating new relationship systems and forms of honest, ethical communication.
Infused with the warmth and introspection that inform all of her various artistic practices, Free Love is Tea’s clarion call for greater visibility, acceptance, and a kinder, more sensual world. It is an unforgettable narrative from one of our most spirited ethnographers.

From cave paintings to copperplate, the story of writing is the story of civilization itself.

The History of Writing traces the evolution of writing from the first recorded laws to the digital languages powering today’s computers, exploring and explaining the ways in which it has shaped cultures, driven scientific progress, and held societies together.

Discover how the earliest scripts developed into modern alphabets through Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Indus Valley seals, and Chinese oracle bones. Learn about different writing systems – from the Mayan glyphs and the Cherokee syllabary to the still-undeciphered Easter Island Rongorongo script. And marvel at some of the world’s most important and beautiful manuscripts, inscriptions, and artefacts along the way.

Much more than just a celebration of the written word in all its many forms, The History of Writing is a window into the beliefs and everyday lives of people through the centuries, and a must-have for anyone fascinated by language, culture, and history.

A beautifully decorated five-year guided mindfulness journal that brings Mary Oliver’s wonder and wisdom into your everyday life.

Discover a daily ritual of presence and poetry with this guided journal featuring 365 quotation prompts, each a line from Mary Oliver’s most beloved poems. Every entry contains the space for five years of reflections–inviting you watch yourself evolve as you slow down, look closely, and find inspiration in the everyday. Sample quotes include:

• Most things that are important, have you noticed, lack a certain neatness.
• After excitement we are so restful. When the thumb of fear lifts, we are so alive.
• I didn’t behave like anything you had ever imagined.

Whether you’re beginning your morning routine, deepening your journaling practice, or gifting a moment of pause to someone you love, Begin with Wonder offers a tender, grounding companion of wise words and poetic reflections.

Level up your LitRPG writing skills! LitRPGs have skyrocketed in popularity, and this comprehensive guide helps you achieve the objective of developing, writing, and publishing your very own adventure. Learn how to build your fantasy world and thrill your readers with Write a LitRPG!From navigating a dungeon crawl to multiclassing a hero, writing a LitRPG is no easy feat! Write a LitRPG is your gamified tool for spawning your own LitRPG adventure.

Inside, you’ll unlock the history of the genre and gather tips on how to create good writing habits. Then, you’ll master how to use numbers to add tension, make progression feel earned, align game mechanics with character arcs, and more. Your quest will finish with an arsenal of useful strategies for publishing your manuscript. Along the way, you’ll encounter:

• Buffs: Actionable hacks that improve writing speed and quality
• Grinds: Fun creative writing exercises to help gain XP
• Loot drops: Helpful planning sheets, checklists, and more rewarding templates
• Lore: Wisdom from the authors and series that came before
• And more!

Whether you’re drafting your first portal fantasy or refining a thousand-chapter epic, this book gives you the tools to hook your readers and keep them leveling alongside your protagonist. Commit to your storytelling quest by equipping yourself with Write a LitRPG!

How often are we told that time will provide the emotional distance we need to comprehend what has happened to us? How often do we encounter the claim that as the weeks, months, and years pass we will achieve greater clarity?

In this searching, playful collection, Patrick Madden gives the lie to such easy consolations. Through a simple conceit, that each essay begins with the phrase “I have just …” Madden examines recent experiences, reaching for unexpected associations to generate linguistically artful and narratively subversive essays.

A comment overheard in a parking lot, a near-tragic incident off the coast of Uruguay, a jaunty whistle sung by an unseen bird–each of these “recenses,” as Madden calls them, reveals how we use language to contain, refract, elide, and re-create, and how we are constantly revising and rewriting the past. Through this journey into how we construct our personal histories, Madden reveals the surprising pleasure, and occasional painful truth, of never really knowing.

A musician leaves her quaint town in search of a bigger life, only to get tangled up with a mischievous bandit and a royal heist in this delightful and poignant new cozy fantasy romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore.

Prudence Marsh has always known she’s meant for more than playing violin at small-town taverns, so when she learns of an audition for a royal wedding, she knows this is it: her chance to be somebody. After years of putting everyone else first, Pru sets out to finally pursue her dreams of being a famous bard.

Callum DiCorvo, roguishly handsome cursebreaker and bandit extraordinaire, is content with his life of crime. So content, in fact, that he’s determined to keep things exactly as they are. Cheerfully thieving is all he’s good for anyway.

When Pru collides with Callum and his crew in a roadside robbery that leaves her beloved violin in splinters, she demands to travel with them until they replace it. Before long, Pru finds herself growing close to the motley bunch, especially Callum, whose sparkling banter and crooked smiles tease her like a song she can’t get out of her head.

But the bandits have stumbled upon a heist that could make all their dreams come true–breaking into the mystical Lune Vault at the palace on the same night as the wedding–leaving Pru to decide what’s more important: the dreams she’s held on to for so long, or the ones she’s building right now.

Events at a teen summer canoe program in the Canadian northwoods turn deadly in this new thriller by the author of Stone Maidens.

At 17, Llewelyn Davies is a sensitive and intelligent adolescent under the care of a wealthy grandmother who took him in after his mother died and his alcoholic father abandoned him. Plagued by anxiety and depression, Llewelyn builds a wall to protect his fragile heart.

When his grandmother signs him up for a month-long wilderness experience to help boost his leadership skills, they both get more than they bargained for. A murder at the camp, tied to a Toronto-based crime family, puts Llewelyn in mortal danger. Fleeing from armed hitmen, Llewelyn and Eloise, a red-headed teen with her own past traumas, battle extreme and dangerous conditions. Tapping into strengths he didn’t know he had, Llewelyn finds his true identity and falls in love, despite the treachery of lies, deceit, and demise around them.

Love on the Perimeter, a romantic crime thriller about coming to terms with the past in order to face your future, makes clear that while a perimeter-a defense against outside forces or unexpected intrusions-is necessary in life, it can be breached by love.

Now in his 70s, Lloyd Devereux Richards is the viral sensation behind the thriller Stone Maidens. Make sure to check out his TikTok, which has over 700k followers!

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros comes a slow-burn romance about love, family, and what it means to become the truest version of yourself.

Callista Moran has spent a lifetime putting her own plans aside to care for other people. Once she and Darren Knight announce their engagement, she thinks her future is finally set. But when a routine sailing trip goes tragically wrong, a cyclone blows those carefully made plans away.

Stranded on an island for the next eighteen months alongside the crew and her fiancé’s cousin, Callista discovers a strength she never knew she had. And begins to question the life she always thought she wanted. With Dominic, an ex-army medic, she finds true peace–and a version of herself that she doesn’t need to explain. They resist their connection at first, but as months wear on, and the hope of rescue fades, something real starts taking shape, built on who they are when everything else is stripped away.

When they’re finally found, the world hasn’t changed. But they have. In the height of a modern media frenzy, learning to live as the people they’ve become will challenge not only their definition of survival, but love.

Fed up and burnt-out, a woman leaves the city to take on the challenge of owning a sunflower farm but finds that her biggest trial is facing her first love in this charming second-chance romance by USA Today bestselling author Danica Nava.

Drained by her high-pressure tech job, June Walker finds an escape in homesteading videos and the fantasy of a quieter life. When she finally hits her breaking point, she does the only reasonable thing: She quits her job and buys a crumbling sunflower farm in rural Oklahoma, where she grew up.

June thought her biggest challenge in restoring Sunshine Farm would be the rotting fences but soon comes to the crushing realization that “positive vibes” are not a business plan. Nothing, however, tests her resolve quite like running into her first love, the boy she left behind after her world imploded when she was seventeen. She’s back for a fresh start, not to unpack old heartbreaks.

Noah Abbott never left Love County. Between his family, his job with the local fire brigade, and a town that knows him inside and out, he has everything he needs–except answers. So when June Walker returns as the new owner of Sunshine Farm, Noah is determined to find out why the girl who once meant everything to him vanished without a word.

As old wounds crack open and attraction flares back to life, June and Noah are forced to reckon with their past and decide whether first love is a memory best left buried or the one thing worth replanting.

An elite university, billionaire, new adult romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Devney Perry, for fans of Gossip Girl and We Were Liars.

Aston University might be teeming with prestigious and wealthy students, but the currency on campus isn’t their millions. It’s their secrets. And the three women living at Clarence Manor are filthy rich.

Cassia came to Aston to escape the demons of her past.

Elora pretends to be an ice princess to guard a shattered spirit.

Ivy disguises the pain of her mistakes with a beautiful mask.

Maybe they could have kept the skeletons in their closets neatly tucked away, except love has a way of lifting the veil. And as each woman meets a man determined to win her heart, there’s no such thing as a buried secret.

Who’s hiding the ugliest truths?

Step through the gates of Clarence Manor and judge for yourself.

“A stunning story of friendship and family, love and belonging … I absolutely adored it.” — Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark

When two young men meet during a tech internship, it sparks an intense friendship–and even more intense competition–in this sweeping novel of privilege, identity, and ambition from the acclaimed author of What We Were Promised.

Jack Chen, the oldest son of caterers from Queens, is an expert at studying the rich from afar. When he finagles his way into a prestigious internship at tech giant K.O. Systems, he’s prepared to fake everything: his credentials, his confidence, even his past. What he isn’t prepared for is his officemate, Jack Owens, the depressed son of the company’s billionaire founder, who’s only there for a summer reprieve from his father’s scrutiny at the family vacation house.Their connection is immediate, built on mutual admiration. Chen sees in Owens the advantages he’s been denied; Owens sees in Chen someone free of the pain he’s been taught to hide. Owens, Chen, and Chen’s girlfriend quickly become close friends, but by summer’s end the three can no longer outrun the lies they’ve told themselves and each other. As pressures build throughout the next few years, the two Jacks circle each other like opponents in their favorite board game, Go, each chasing the life the other was born into, from career to family to lovers. But the path to success and matters of the heart can test even the closest of friendships–and not all of them survive.Nostalgic, heart-wrenching, and propulsive, Tiger’s Mouth is a nuanced portrait of complex friendship, family dynamics, and love in its most unexpected forms.