Sweet Fury

Sweet FuryWhen a beloved actress is cast in a feminist adaptation of a Fitzgerald classic, she finds herself the victim in a deadly game of revenge in which everyone, on screen and off, is playing a part. Cunningly ambitious, twisty, and immersive, it seduces you into a story so compelling that you arent ready for the sucker punch of its deeper truths. This is a hell of a debut. Rebecca Makkai Lila Crayne is Americas sweetheart: shes generous and kind, gorgeous

It’s a dangerous job that requires him to scale trees hundreds of feet tall—a job that both his father and grandfather died doing

conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City

bad checks

Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store

an aspiring filmmaker and collaborator who makes New York start to feel like home

bringing her wisdom to many more readers

On a hot summer day in 1935

crossing all professional boundaries—and putting his own family in harm’s way

People like Martin Luther King Jr

Harper fears that trading fillings for feelings may make her lose control and can't risk her carefully ordered life coming undone

And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day

“A satirical spin on the end times-- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers