Following Monday’s review of Swift River, here’s Essie Chambers: One More River to Cross. Swift River (Simon & Schuster, June 4, 2024), is a complex, place-centered coming-of-age reckoning with race and class.
Please join us to hear five breakout authors chat with their editors, including Essie Chambers (Swift River) and Carina Guiterman.
Swift River tackles an impressively broad range of issues, including race, class, and body image, within the coming-of-age of Diamond Newberry. Essie Chambers’s first novel, building upon her work in film and television (Descendant, 2022), is set in the decaying New England mill town of Swift River, with meditations on place and the effect of a…
Buzz Books has had a particularly stellar track record with highlighting the most talented, exciting and diverse debut authors, and this edition is no exception.
For a book lover, the new year is the definition of a blank page. Now’s the time to set your reading goals, if that’s your thing. Or, it’s a moment to gaze ahead at all the wonders this year brings — literary wonders, specifically. https://www.today.com/popculture/books/best-new-books-2024-rcna129948
“Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer” was released Tuesday by the industry newsletter Publishers Marketplace. The e-book includes selections from adult fiction, debut books, nonfictiion and young adult fiction. Notable titles include Dodd’s “A Daughter of Fair Verona,” Condie’s “The Unwedding” and Baptiste’s “Moko Magic: Carnival Chaos,” a new book from the author known for her “Jumbies”…
Lots of BIG debuts are on the way: Writer and filmmaker Essie J Chambers’ Swift River, bought by Dialogue Books for six figures, is described as “exceptional”. Set in the New England town of the title in 1987, it follows teenager Diamond and her mother as they prepare to declare Diamond’s long-missing father legally dead,…
Dialogue Books has successfully made a “confident” six-figure pre-empt to the début novel by writer and filmmaker Essie J Chambers. Managing director Sharmaine Lovegrove acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to the “beautiful, tender, funny and moving” Swift River from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein on behalf of Julie Barer at The Book Group, who sold…
Today’s Deal Columbia MFA and Producer for the Netflix documentary Descendant Essie J. Chambers’s SWIFT RIVER, a darkly funny and moving novel set over the summer of 1987 in a dying New England mill town as a sixteen-year-old and her mother prepare to declare her long-missing father legally dead and as she discovers that her…