Sweet Fury by Sash Bischoff, a January Indie Next Pick, will be published in North America by Simon & Schuster on January 7, 2025, and will subsequently be published in sixteen international territories around the world. Sweet Fury is a literary thriller; and as readers will find out, Princeton plays a very important part in its plot...

Please support Sash's debut by ordering Sweet Fury here! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sweet-Fury/Sash-Bischoff/9781668043257

For more information about Sash, Sweet Fury, and her tour schedule, please visit www.sashbischoff.com.

Select advance praise for Sweet Fury:

“Sweet Fury is cunningly ambitious, and rises to all its own challenges: twisty and immersive, it seduces you into a story so compelling that you aren't ready for the sucker-punch of its deeper truths. This is a hell of a debut.”—Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions for You and The Great Believers

“Sweet Fury is a wildly imaginative, very dark romance of a kind that would have shocked F. Scott Fitzgerald, that icon of the Roaring Twenties. Filled with surprises, unpredictable in its denouement, this audacious first novel is a subversive and highly entertaining exploration of the theme of ‘romance’ itself.”—Joyce Carol Oates

“A breathlessly fun, dark, and twisty tale of feminist revenge.”—Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice and More or Less Maddy

About Sweet Fury:

Lila Crayne is America’s sweetheart: she’s generous and kind, gorgeous and magnetic. She and her fiancé, visionary filmmaker Kurt Royall, have settled into a stunning new West Village apartment and are set to begin filming their feminist adaptation of Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night.

To prepare for the leading role, Lila begins working with charming and accomplished therapist Jonah Gabriel to dig into the trauma of her past. Soon, Lila’s impeccably manicured life begins to unravel on the therapy couch—and Jonah is just the man to pick up the pieces. But everyone has a secret, and no one is quite who they seem.

A twisty, thought-provoking novel of construction and deconstruction in conversation with the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and told through the lens of the film industry, Sweet Fury is an incisive and bold critique of America’s deep-rooted misogyny. With this novel, Bischoff examines the narratives we tell ourselves, and what happens when we co-opt others into those stories; and she probes the blurred lines between victim and perpetrator and the true meaning of justice.

• When & Where?

  • Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 7:30pm EST at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY

  • Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 4pm PST at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA

  • Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 11:45am PST at Booked For Lunch in La Jolla, CA

  • Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 7:30pm at Warwick's in La Jolla, CA

  • Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 7pm at Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, AZ

  • Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 6pm at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, NJ

  • Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 5:30pm at the American Writers Museum in Chicago, IL

  • Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 6pm at the Woman's Athletic Club in Chicago, IL

Tickets: https://sashbischoff.com/events/

Website: http://sashbischoff.com