The Novels
01
How to Raise an Art Star
The art world is brutal. Especially when you’re almost eleven.
How to Raise an Art Star is a sharply observed, emotionally exacting novel about family-making, creative ambition, artistic inheritance, and the fragile negotiations that hold a life together after everything has fallen apart.
After a freak water taxi accident at the Venice Biennale leaves Vabeh Gregson Bennett orphaned, she arrives in Brooklyn with a trust fund and a legacy fueling her ambition. Her new mothers, Devon and Morgan, a creative couple who had not planned on children, are still trying to understand what parenting will cost their marriage, careers, and carefully constructed lives when Vabeh decides that becoming an Art Star is not enough.
Soon, Vabeh opens the Walk-In, a gallery in a classmate’s closet, with Gus Hempelstein as her trusted gallerina. Collectors, classmates, publicists, artists, parents, and gatekeepers quickly begin organizing themselves around her rise until Gus defects to open a rival gallery and the playground becomes another art-world battleground.
With humor, tenderness, and a clear-eyed look at the art world’s seductions and distortions, the novel explores what success demands in a world that loves talent, exploits it, rewards proximity, and reshapes the people closest to it.
Perfect for readers of contemporary literary fiction exploring art, ambition, parenting, and the stories we inherit and remake.
“What an original and witty send-up of the art world. High art satire.”— Audible Listener
Print & E-book
02
How to Date a Black Girl
Love is complicated enough without putting your inheritance on the line.
How to Date a Black Girl is a funny, emotionally intelligent novel about love, ambition, identity, and the inherited expectations shaping who we become and the lives we dare to build.
Taylor Coleman has built a life defined by discipline, achievement, and careful self-management. But when her ex-girlfriend Megan Barkin reenters her world with unfinished desire, creative ambition, and the possibility of a different future, Taylor is forced to confront the widening distance between the life she constructed and the one she still wants.
Moving between elite professional environments, family systems, the art world, and long-held expectations around race, respectability, and success, the novel explores the negotiations shaping modern intimacy and the stories people tell about themselves in order to succeed.
Funny, intimate, and socially observant, How to Date a Black Girl examines what happens when ambition, desire, family expectation, and self-definition stop pointing in the same direction.
Perfect for readers of contemporary literary fiction exploring love, ambition, identity, family expectation, and the tension between authenticity and acceptance.
“This book is made to be a movie or Netflix limited series.”— Amazon Reader
Print & E-book
03
Tails from the Alley
In Brooklyn’s alleys, survival depends on knowing when the rules have changed.
Tails from the Alley is a darkly funny literary novel about power, loyalty, hierarchy, and the fragile ecosystems holding communities together.
At the center of Porkchpo Alley is Altonio, a housecat strategist ruling her backyard kingdom alongside an ambitious alley rat, a wounded pigeon, a loyal shiba inu lieutenant, and a growing cast of creatures trying to secure territory, loyalty, safety, and their next meal.
With a blend of dark humor, magical realism, and unexpected tenderness, Tails from the Alley explores what happens when the social order slips and whether survival requires adaptation, alliance, or complete reinvention.
Perfect for readers of literary fiction exploring power, belonging, survival, social ecosystems, and the strange intelligence of collective life.
Print & E-book
