My Most Anticipated Releases for July

Southern Gothics galore.

July is coming in HOT (pun intended) with new releases that seem tailor-made to me specifically. We’ve got not one but TWO supernatural Southern Gothics, essays about the 2000s, multiple female-friendship centric coming of age stories… we’re eating good this month girlies.

Mayra by Nicky Gonzalez

A supernatural-tinged Southern Gothic novel about female friendship and rage set in the swamps of the Florida Everglades???? Was this book designed in a lab for me specifically?! I cannot wait for this one. I’ve already pre-ordered the hardcover, because I know I’m going to love it.

Promising Review

“Nicky Gonzalez channels Shirley Jackson (something I do not say lightly) in this disquieting, mesmerizing twenty-first-century Southern Gothic. In Mayra, the hazy borders of friendship and identity are blurred, made uncanny and dangerous, and I was hooked from paragraph one.”

— Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts

Release Date: July 22nd

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