Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University, and has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her landmark books include Corregidora, Eva's Man, and The Healing, the last a National Book Award finalist and New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her latest book, Palmares, was named a New York Times Editors' Choice and has received countless other accolades.
“Jones continues her marvelous run after last year’s Pulitzer
finalist Palmares with the gloriously demented story of an artist
who keeps trying to kill her husband . . . . Jones, implicitly
defiant, draws deeply from classic and global literature—a
well-placed reference to Cervantes’s windmills leaves the reader’s
head spinning. And like one of Amanda’s inventive novels, this one
ends on a surprising and playful turn. It ought to be required
reading.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“The remarkable latest release by acclaimed novelist and poet Jones
. . . Her prose is captivating, at moments coolly observational and
at others profoundly intimate; the delicate balance is the mark of
a truly great storyteller. An intriguing, tightly crafted, and
insightful meditation on creativity and complicated
friendships.”
—Booklist, Starred Review
“Jones’ mercurial, often inscrutable body of work delivers yet
another change-up to readers’ expectations.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“This is a brilliant and unsparing examination of the burdens we
place on friendship and marriage, the way that creative genius is
misperceived as madness, the clumsy way mental health is addressed,
the scourge of racism, and the alchemy of folklore and legacy bound
in the secrets we hide.”
—Lauren LeBlanc, Boston Globe
“Don’t call it a comeback . . . Gayl Jones continues her resurgence
with this novel focused on Black women creatives on Ibiza as one of
them continues trying to kill her husband.”
—Karla J. Strand, Ms.
“Gayl Jones constructs a novel that is part mystery, part thriller,
and wholly captivating. . . . a shining segment of the American
literary canon has been restored.”
—Kate Webb, Times Literary Supplement UK
“Brilliant and incendiary, Jones’s pairing of tragedy with dark
humor cuts to the bone.”
—O. Magazine
“[A novel with] the plush scenery of a travelogue, the misshapen
soul of a noir, and the anarchic spirit of a trickster tale.”
—The New Yorker
“Wows listeners with characters who are unique and appalling yet
captivating.”
—AudioFile
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