SLEEP

A haunting and beautiful novel ANN PATCHETT''Deeply satisfying beautifully written POLLY SAMSON''Exceptionally moving''NEW YORK TIMES''Magnetic breathtaking CHERIE JONESBeautiful I adored it CHRIS WHITAKER''Profoundly beautiful''NPRA most anticipated book of 2025 in The New York Times Elle People Oprah Daily and SheerLuxe.A dazzling debut novel following a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood as she returns to the family home one summer.How much of our lives are ours alone?Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her familys lush backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes but her family life requires careful prudence. Then one fateful summer everything changes. A line is crossed and the simple pleasures of girlhood slip away.Twenty-five years later Margaret hides under her parents bed waiting for her young daughters to find her. Shes newly divorced and navigating life as a co-parent while discovering the pleasures of a new boyfriend. But some part of her is still under the blackberry bush from all those summers ago punched out of time. She must now reckon with the echoes between the past and the present what it means to keep a child truly safe and the family she carries inside herself as she builds a family of her own.Beautiful unflinchingly human and life-affirming Sleep is about the burden of love and what lies on the other side of silence: the world rich in possibility.''Jones takes her cues from writers like John Cheever Richard Yates and Virginia Woolf''NEW YORK TIMESA masterpiece of carefully crafted perspective and tone heroic even hopeful'' WASHINGTON POSTJoness prose is spare but effervescent''ELLESleep has a real heart beating with courage and rage. I loved it ABIGAIL DEAN author of The Death of Us''Thrillingly virtuosic beguiling unsettling and stylish JESSICA STANLEY author of Consider Yourself Kissed