Animal Instinct
Published 2025
GP Putnam's Sons
It’s spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire and lust for a new life refuse to be contained. Frustrated with the existing dating options, Rachel creates Frankie, the AI chatbot she programs with all the good parts of dating in middle age . . . and some of the bad. But perhaps real life has more in store for Rachel than she could ever program for herself.
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One of Brooklyn Public Library’s Favorite Books of 2025
One of Oprah Daily’s Best Books of Spring 2025
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One of LGBTQ Reads‘s Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025
One of Write or Die Magazine’s Most Anticipated Books of March 2025
Dear Edna Sloane
Published 2024
Red Hen Press
Edna Sloane was a promising author at the top of her game, until she suddenly disappeared and was largely forgotten. Decades later, a hungry young writer sets out to find her, sure his discovery will set him up in the literary stratosphere. Dear Edna Sloane is a funny, fast-paced epistolary novel about fame, writers, ambition, and the ups and downs of a creative life.
Unseen City
Published 2020
Red Hen Press
A multi-generational portrait of New York and the unexpected connections between a lonely Brooklyn librarian, a widower returning to his roots, and a ghost still lingering in a home that was once part of an activist-founded farming settlement. Winner of the 2021 IPPY Gold Medal in Literary Fiction.
The Mermaid of Brooklyn
Published 2013
Touchstone
"A joyful and exhilarating read." (Maria Semple). When a stressed-out Brooklyn mom gets entangled with a mermaid in the East River, she is forced to rethink her ideas about success, motherhood, romance, and relationships. A selection of Target's Discover New Writers program, and a Hudson News Summer Reads pick.
How Far is the Ocean From Here
Published 2008
Shaye Areheart
Named one of the Chicago Tribune’s Hot Reads of the Summer and a Notable Debut Novel by Poets & Writers, How Far Is the Ocean from Here explores the ways in which people care for one another and the ways in which they fail, the kinds of families we create when we have no one else to turn to, and the strangeness and unpredictability of love.