Press
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Book Reporter: SWIFT RIVER Review
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BookPage: SWIFT RIVER Review
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Publisher’s Weekly: SWIFT RIVER Review
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The Southern Bookseller: SWIFT RIVER Review
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Debutiful: 15 Noteworthy Debut Books to Read This June
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Virtuoso, The Magazine (May / June 2024)
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WATCH: Hoda and Jenna discuss ‘Swift River’
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Apple: Best Books of June 2024
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Zibby’s Ultimate Summer Reading List
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Library Reads June 2024 Fiction List Picks Swift River
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BookPage: Cool off this summer with 5 splashy books
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Barnes & Noble Discover Picks Swift River for June 2024
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WATCH: Read with Jenna: ‘Swift River’ is June 2024 book club pick
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Jenna Bush Hager says her June 2024 pick is ‘filled with secrets’
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Kirkus Review: ‘Swift River’ Is New Pick for ‘Today’ Book Club
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Time Names Swift River One of 25 New Books You Need to Read This Summer
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Star Tribune: Essie Chambers’ debut novel ‘Swift River’ is about mothers and daughters in a small mill town
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Real Simple picks Swift River as a Best Book of 2024 (So Far)!
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Los Angeles Times: 20 new books you need to read this summer
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Read This Next! June 2024 picks Swift River
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Swift River is a LibraryReads Pick for June 2024
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American Booksellers Association: Indies Introduce Swift River
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The June 2024 Indie Next List Picks Swift River
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Maximum Shelf author interview: Essie Chambers
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.
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Publishers Weekly Winter Institute 2024: Adult Authors to Meet
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Publishers Lunch & American Booksellers Association present the Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel
Please join us to hear five breakout authors chat with their editors, including Essie Chambers (Swift River) and Carina Guiterman.
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Shelf Awareness: Swift River’s Essie Chambers: One More River to Cross
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
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Publisher’s Marketplace selects SWIFT RIVER as one of 2024’s buzziest books
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.
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Today names Swift River a “book we can’t wait to read in 2024”
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
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WaPo: Free ‘Buzz Books’ e-compilation offers excerpts from dozen of upcoming works
“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”
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The Guardian: Meals and deals: five biggest trends from London book fair 2023
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,
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The Bookseller: Dialogue makes ‘confident’ six-figure pre-empt for ‘exceptional’ Chambers début
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
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Publishers Marketplace: Today’s Deal
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