FRUIT OF THE DEAD to be published by Scribner in spring '24

Rachel Lyon's sophomore novel FRUIT OF THE DEAD, a contemporary reimagining of the Persephone myth, will be published by Scribner in spring 2024. Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalist Rachel Lyon’s FRUIT OF THE DEAD, pitched as a contemporary reimagining of the Persephone myth following a teenage girl’s dangerously seductive summer on a pharmaceutical CEO’s private island, a story that is both a curious exploration of power in a modern underworld and a portrait of a mother/daughter relationship on the edge, to Kara Watson at Scribner, for publication in spring 2024, by Meredith Kaffel Simonoff at The Gernert Company (NA). Rights also to Sophie Missing at Scribner UK, in a pre-empt.