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Also by Dylan Landis:

List of All Possible Desires, May 2026
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Rainey Royal, May 2015
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RAINEY ROYAL
By: Dylan Landis

Soho Press
May 2015
On Sale: May 19, 2015
Featuring: Rainey Royal
ISBN: 1616955716
EAN: 9781616955717
Kindle: B00J1HDEME
Paperback / e-Book
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Contemporary | Fiction

Set in the bohemian Greenwich Village of the 1970s, Dylan Landis, winner of a 2014 O. Henry Prize (for "Trust," a section of this novel) weaves a powerful story of girlhood, friendship, and sexuality.

Fourteen-year-old Rainey Royal lives with her father, a jazz musician with a cultish personality, in a once-elegant, now-decaying brownstone. Her mother has abandoned the family, and Rainey fends off advances from her father’s best friend while trying desperately to nurture her own creative drives and build a substitute family. She’s a rebel, even a criminal, but she’s also deeply vulnerable, fighting to figure out how to put back in place the boundaries her life has knocked down, and more than that, struggling to learn how to be an artist and a person in a broken world.

Rainey Royal is told in 14 narratives of scarred and aching beauty that build into a fiercely powerful novel: the harrowing and ultimately affirming story of a young artist.

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Studio 360 - May 9, 2015